Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires #1)

Reader reviewed by Banana Split

This book is an awesome start to the Morganville Vampires series. Its about a girl named Claire who is abused at her college. She then moves out of her dorms into a house with 3 roomates: Eve, Michael and Shane. This is an awesome book where the vampires are neither the good guys nor the bad guys. This isn't your typical vampire story. Its full of suspense, romance and action. Claire and her new friends must discover the facts in order to stay alive. I have read all 6 books in the series so far with more on the way! They are very good and I highly recommend these to anyone! Both boys and girls.

Reader reviewed by Lexie

The first time I read Glass Houses was as an e-book a friend had sent me along with Book 2, Dead Girls' Dance.
I had only read Rachel Caine once previously, one of her Weather Warden
books, but hadn't been fully engaged by that book to warrent looking
for others she had written. My friend was convinced however that I
would love this series (it was just after I had lent her Twilight and began my young adult paranormal craze...that's still going on).

Love
is perhaps too strong a word for how I feel about the Morganville
Vampires series, but I definitely enjoy the books immensely. They're
just the shade of different from other YA vampire series that make them
pure entertaining fun.

Let's face it Claire has the rough
end of the stick in just about every single way possible. She's
(probably) the youngest student at TPU, hundreds of miles from anybody
who knows her, too smart for the general student body's tastes and
somehow managed to land in the one town that should have had neon signs
on it warning folks away. Worse her social awkwardness makes her easy
prey for vicious animals like Monica, thereby sealing her fate in
Morganville. For the first fifty pages or so I was ready to take up
arms against Monica on Claire's behalf--she was just...EVIL. I mean
truly. Not a single redeeming feature at all. I wouldn't put it past
her to kick little old ladies in the middle of the street if it struck
her fancy or punt babies for a laugh.

Michael, Shane and Eve are
the sort of friends every outsider desperately wants. They're almost
too perfect in that regard. Shane and Michael are hotties--the fact
that they are outsider hotties doesn't diminish a single speck of their
hotness. Well maybe Michael's condition might, but he's a musician so
it kind of makes up for it. Almost at least. Eve--despite her goth
look--is a bubbly, loyal best friend ever sort of girl. Always got your
back, always knows what to say to make things seem better. The three of
them would more then likely be the popular crowds kings and queen in
any other town in America.

I admit to leaning towards
Michael/Claire in the beginning. Shane had to grow on me and with all
that Michael/Claire share together I thought it was a shoo-in. Except
that well Claire is still technically 16 years old and while
Michael/Eve/Shane are only 18 years old, and in most states (that I
know of) its completely legal for an 18 year old to date a 16 year old,
Morganville is a special special place with lots of nasty rules and
expectations and laws.

Also ending a book on a cliffhanger,
an unavoidable cliffhanger no less, great way to hook readers. As long
as the next book is forthcoming in a timely manner (which thankfully
the books seem to come out at a regular clip).

Reader reviewed by CV

   The Morganville Vampire series is amazing but it all starts with the incredible first book, Glass Houses!  This book is amazing and the characters have character! Claire is a smart girl with a lot to learn about her new town.  She moves into a beautiful house with two hot guys and an energetic "goth" girl, and slowly finds out the town secret... The town is filled with Vampires! And her house mate is one of them...or half... and is stuck in the house.  But only Claire knows what is really wrong with him.   Go read this book! Find out the rest!!! 

Reader reviewed by Priyanka



Morganville vampires series is one of the best series i have ever read! If you liked Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer, you will definatley love the series. you fall in love with the characters instantly and you get hooked really quickly! It's about a girl named clair who is a genius and went to collage early -TPU- in morganville, texas. due to some "problems" she moves out of the dorm and moves in to the Glass house. Oh and take note: Morganville is controlled by vampires, creepy, yeah. Morganville...you'll never want to leave...


check out the books in the series
-Glass Houses (book one)
-Dead Girl's Dance (book two)
-Midnight Alley (book three)
-Feast of Fools (book four)
-Lords of Misrule(book five)
-Carpe Corpus (book six) ** coming soon **