Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, Book 1) by Rachel Caine Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, Book 1)
Book Review: A very good book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book surprised me. I really thought, since it is a high school aged read, I wouldn't like it. That it would not hold my attention. Well, I am here to tell you I was wrong. It grabbed me right off and kept me untillthe last page. My only disaapointment was that it ended! I wanted MORE! I cannot wait until the next book comes out! This is -for sure-going on my keeper shelf. Andmoms and dads out there, tho,there is some bad language in the book, it is a good read for kids in 11-12th grade, I think. Especailly if you have a child that doesn't always like to read. This might get your daughter (a son may not like this as much) to get into reading with this series. We all know how important it is to get our kids reading!!!! Again-a KEEPERBook Review: interesting ideas, incomplete characterization
Summary: 3 Stars
This book has is based on an interesting and novel idea of vampires running a town filled with either compliant Protected humans or ignorant "cattle". Maybe it has too many ideas for the book length, since the author would introduce one, and I would think what? But then we'd be on to the next topic/event. And the main character, a 16 year old genius, seems to be a little too immature and lacking in common sense - I would have bought her character better as a 13 or 14 year old. It was an interesting and entertaining book, with some intriguing secondary characters, but the development througout just fell a little short of what I had hoped for.Book Review: Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Summary: 5 Stars
All Claire Danvers wanted was a normal college experience. Preferably somewhere far away, but when her parents send her to Morganville, Texas, she's still glad to be going to college, even if she is, at sixteen, the youngest college student around. Morganville is a small college town, and Claire's prepared to make the best of her fresh start. Unfortunately, things don't turn out the way anyone expected or wanted them to.
At first, Claire's existence is made miserable by a few girls in her dorm who torment her. Dorm life, for Claire, is not all it's cracked up to be--in fact, it's pretty much as miserable as she thinks it can get, so Claire decides to move out and find a place off-campus. Luck is with her; she ends up at a spooky-looking mansion with a room she can actually afford, and three roommates who actually turn out to be pretty cool, even if they have reservations about letting her move in at first. Michael, Shane, and Eve are all eighteen, and Claire's a couple of years younger.
If Claire thought being harassed in her dorm was bad, she didn't know Morganville's secrets. When she moves out of the dorm, however, she learns that there's more to Morganville than there seems to be. The town is run by vampires. Yes, actual vampires that can't go out in the daytime and drink human blood at night. If Claire's not careful, it could end up being her blood they're drinking...
GLASS HOUSES is a great book for fans of vampire novels. Claire and her roommates are quite likeable as characters, and, perhaps making the book even better, the bad guys are just as easy to hate as the inhabitants of the Glass House are to like. In Morganville, Rachel Caine has created a mysterious, intriguing, and spooky town run by the undead (I was a bit reminded of Buffy's hometown of Sunnydale). The writing is great, and there are few flaws in this awesome book.
Claire doesn't ask nearly as many questions as might be expected of someone who had just been let in on the secret that she's living in a town run by vampires; it seems like that might be a way of keeping some questions and suspense in the story, but it struck me as a bit unrealistic while reading. Even with its minor flaws, though, this is a book that will have readers hooked and ready for more in this series!
Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce
Book Review: Easy read, similar in style to Charlaine Harris
Summary: 3 Stars
I first stumbled across Rachel Caine in her Weather Warden series. I've enjoyed most of her work so far. Glass Houses is a fast, fun vampire read. Reminiscent of Charlaine Harris, but thankfully the characters have a bigger vocabulary. If you're a fan of the Weather Warden series, you'll probably still enjoy this work, just be aware the style of writing is different.Book Review: Gotta love those vampire tales!
Summary: 4 Stars
I just read this entire book last night. I really liked it except for one thing which I will mention in a moment.
Glass Houses is the story of 16 year old genius Claire. Claire has just started college and instead of sending her to the Ivy League colleges of the East Coast, Claire's parents decide she needs to stay closer to home and enroll her in Texas Prairie University. Claire is used to hostility because of being so different, but the animosity that greets her at Howard Hall is beyond anything she has ever experienced before. In fact, its downright deadly. When she is beaten and shoved down a flight of stairs Claire knows she needs to do something fast. Unwilling to quit school she answers an ad for a roommate at the Glass House. There she meets gothic Eve, slacker Shane and the nocturnal musician, Michael Glass, owner of the house. At first Michael doesn't want Claire to stay because she is underage and the three roommates are all 18 years old. But when he learns of Claire's plight he takes pity on her. Soon Claire learns things about Morganville, the college and its residents, which are better suited to nightmares than the real world. Marked for death and running scared Claire has to use her genius to save not only herself, but her new found friends as well.
This book was very engrossing. Filled with action, mysteries and a bit of romance it compelled me to finish the whole book in one sitting. I really enjoyed all of the characters and Michael's prediciment was especially intriguing. However, there is one thing I really didn't like. To me books should have beginnings, middles and ENDINGS. I realize that this book is (obviously) the first in a prospective series but ending it in the middle of an action scene is frustrating to the reader. Endings should have resolution of a story. You can still hold readers' interests and have them anxious for the next book without resorting to cutting it off cold.
Without a doubt I will be waiting for the next book to come out but I truly hope that the next story is complete in itself.