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Bitter Blood by Rachel Caine Now that the threat of the Vampires to Morganville has been defeated, the gravest danger to the human residents is the enemy within... For years, the human and vampire residents of Morganville have managed to coexist in peace. But thanks to the eradication of the parasitic creatures known as the draug, the vampires of Morganville have now been freed of their usual constraints. With the Vampires indulging their every whim, the town's human population is determined to hold on to their lives by taking up arms. College student Claire Danvers, with ties to both humans and vampires, isn't about to take sides.  To make the matters worse, a television show comes to Morganville searching for ghosts, just as vampire and human politics collide. Now, Claire and her friends have to figure out how to keep the peace without ending up on the nightly news...or worse.  For Claire and her friends, things are finally looking up for them around Morganville. I...

Black Dawn by Rachel Caine When a tide of ferocious draug, the vampire's deadliest enemy, floods Morganville, it's eclectic mix of residents must fight to save their town from devastation. Chaos has taken over the quiet college town of Morganville as the threat of the draug rapidly spreads with the help of city's water system. Whilst most of the locals have already fled, student Claire Danvers and her friends Shane, Eve and Michael chose to stay and fight.  Things take a turn for the worse when vampire Amelie, the town's founder, is infected by the master draug's bite, Unless Claire and her friends can find an antidote to save Amelie and overcome the draug, Morganville's future looks bleak... Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael are back to kick some ass, and for once it's not the vampire's there after. No, it's Magnus, a creepy, slimy, wet, rotting creature known as the master draug. And the vampire's worst enemy of all time.  W...

Last Breath by Rachel Caine Claire Danvers is concerned when three vampires vanish from Morganville without a trace. The last person seen with them is someone new to town - a mysterious individual named Magnus. Claire is convinced creepy Magnus isn't human...but is he a vampire, or something else entirely? Claire's hunt for answers leads her to solving another mystery that's long been puzzling her: why do all the vampires live so far out in a sunny desert when they're sensitive to sunlight? The answer has nothing to do with the sunlight, but with water - and an ancient enemy who has finally found a way to invade the vampires' landlocked community. Vampires aren't the top predator on earth. There's something much worse. Which means if Claire, and Morganville, want to live, they will have to fight on to the last breath... When we were last with Claire, she had just arrived back home in Morganville after stopping illegal fights between Vampires and hum...

Bite Club by Rachel Caine Morganville is a quite college town where humans and vampires live in relative peace. But lately a great deal of blood is being spilt... Having survived a number if adventures with her new night-dwelling friends, college student Claire Danvers has come to realise that for the most part, the undead just was to get on with their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble. There's a new  extreme sport being broadcast over the Internet: bare-knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against one another - or, worse, against humans. Claire soon discovers that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in Morganville. And if they want to survive, they'll have to do a lot more than fight... We all know that Morganville can have it's ups and downs from time to time. Especially after the sun has set, but this have just been turned up a heat higher in the Texas state, and things can only get worse, can't they? ...

Ghost Town  by Rachel Caine 'When Claire is ordered to repair the systems that protect Morganville, it's not just cutting into her study time, it's a life-threatening problem. If there's one thing this vampire-infested town is serious about, it's security. But achieving the impossible only brings a whole new set of problems, and the upgrades have unexpected consequences: people inside the town are slowly beginning to forget who they are, even the vampires. Soon, the town's little memory problem has turned into a full-on epidemic. Now Claire needs to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment - before she forgets how to save Morganville' Warning: This review will contain spoilers Review So I thought that this book was brilliant. It kept me on the edge of my seat time and time again and my heart skipped beats when I turned every page I turned. It was such a good read! If you haven't got up to this book yet in The Morganville Vampire Ser...

Kiss Of Death by Rachel Caine 'Claire Danvers has a few things on her mind. First there is the laundry, which is now an unfortunate shade of pink. Then there is her new boyfriend , Shane, who is never too far from her thoughts. Finally, there is her best friend Eve's relationship problems. As if life as a student wasn't complicated enough, Clair just happens to be studying in Morganville. A town run by vampires. Trouble seems to follow Claire and her friends like a Shadow and tonight is no exception to the rule. They must find the most difficult documents for a vampire to acquire; people passes that will allow 'bad ass' Morley and his friends to leave Morganville. But it's proving incredibly problematic, and with the odds seemingly stacked against them, the biggest question of all is... Will they survive?' Warning: This Book review does share some spoilers. Review Well, I must say that this book did not disappoint me in the slightest bit, I know that ...

Fade Out by Rachel Caine "Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedom, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again... Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve's castmates goes missing after starting to work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realise that this film project, featuring the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger - and way more dangerous - than anyone suspected..." There is only one word to describe this book and that word is, WOW. Fade Out by Rachel Caine is the 7th book in the Morganville Vampire series and I have got to say it is one of the best. Fade Out carries on where Carpe Corpus left off and their is no confusion in what is happening when you get onto the next one. It captur...

Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine 'In the small town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace - until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He's kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all it's inhabitants - the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having had such a taste of power?' Carpe Corpus is the sixth book by the author Rachel Caine. As there are more secrets to be uncovered the plot thickens and gets darker with every chapter. After the arrival of Bishop, Morganville has not been quite the same, the blood bank has been set alight which means more hunting is now in order by M...

Lord Of Misrule is the 5th Book in The Morganville Vampire Series by the famous author Rachel Caine. Summary: Morganville, Texas. Just south of normal. In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Then comes Bishop, a master vampire who threatens to abolish all the other, revive the forces of the evil dead, and let chaos rule. But Bishop isn't the only threat. Violent black clouds promise a storm of devastating proportions. As student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against the elements - both natural and and unnatural - the unexpected happens: Morganville's vampires begin to vanish one by one. Discovering why leads Claire to one last choice: Swear allegiance to Bishop...or die. For starters I am sorry I haven't been posting up much, I've been busy with coursework and I never really had time to read or post. Also I forgot my password and couldn't be arsed with it, but I...

Hey all! Okay so this is the first post on here so far, and so far so good haha I kinda thought about doing one of these ages ago (Not the blog I have loads of them ha) But the actual review thing and all the book's I have read. So I guess I will get on with it! :) Glass Houses By Rachel Caine Glass Houses is the first book out of the many in The Morganville Vampire Series, by the very talented Rachel Caine. The book is about a 16 year old girl named Claire Danvers, who is terribly bullied at her University by the "popular" girls. They always remind Claire that she is at the bottom of the food chain, and they are always at the top. The alpha dogs. This soon changes though when Claire goes for a walk around Morganville, or what there is of it. Claire spots a flyer for a room. So Claire being in her situation takes the room, though the people who turn out to be her new roommates are a bit closed up in their own worlds. They don't ra...