Glass Houses by Rachel Caine is another vampire book. What makes this book different is that the vampires are not the good guys like all the other vampire books that are out right now. In Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, Edward, the vampire, is good looking, kind and nearly the perfect man and so many vampire books portray vampires in that manner. However, in Glass Houses which is the first book in The Morganville Vampires Series, the vampires are vicious and scary and not desirable at all!
Claire's parents send her to Texas Prairie University because they think that the town in small and the school is safe. Claire immediately gets on the wrong side of Monica, the leader of a gang of popular girls. They push Claire down the stairs and threaten to kill her. Claire is frightened and moves out of the dorm into the Glass House with three strange roommates: Eve a Goth girl, Michael who sleeps all day and Shane who left Morganville and returned under strange circumstances. From Eve and Shane, Claire learns that the town of Morganville is controlled by vampires and it is not safe to be out after dark. Somehow the Glass House has protective powers and they are safe inside. Claire with her talent of upsetting the wrong people has a vampire join Monica and her gang in threatening her and what happens is nonstop action as the reader discovers all the strange happenings in Morganville and the Glass House.
The downside of the book is that it is part of a series and although it solves the immediate problem, it ends in a place that makes you have to read the next book. We have three of the books in the series in the library.
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