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Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires, Book I (The Moganville Vampires)

Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Signet Book
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

5 reviews
Sales Rank: 100157

Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 0.8

ISBN: 0451219945
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451219947
ASIN: 0451219945

Publication Date: October 3, 2006
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Also Available In:

•	Paperback - Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires Book 1
•	Library Binding - Glass Houses (The Moganville Vampires)
•	Library Binding - Glass Houses: The Morgenville Vampires, Bk 1 (The Morganville Vampires)

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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars

Teenage Fiction October 5, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

The characters were somewhat likeable but I was frustrated upon reading it that the Lead Characters were Teenagers - I had not known that upon purchasing the book and I too believe it should have been listed as Young Adult Fiction.

I was also disappointed that the lead character did not come out with any particular talent, other than being very intelligent. It was a Sunday afternoon read and I am reluctant to purchase the sequels.

5 out of 5 stars

Courtesy of Teens Read Too November 30, 2006
41 out of 43 found this review helpful

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

4 out of 5 stars

Teenage characters but a worthwile read. November 18, 2006
9 out of 12 found this review helpful

The main characters are teenagers but there is a bit more to it than teen lit, or I must be approaching my second childhood since I really enjoyed it. The story could have done with a bit more depth, but it was very atmospheric and a good tale in its own right although it is evidently setting the scene for a new series, which I am looking forward to.

2 out of 5 stars

Teenage fiction not adult fiction November 3, 2006
27 out of 31 found this review helpful

I bought this book because I really enjoyed Rachel Caine's Firewarden series. This book is aimed at teenagers not adults and I'm not surprised another reviewer had the same problems I did.
Amazon please don't list this as adult fiction it isn't!

3 out of 5 stars

A good book for the right age group but a disappointment for us "grown ups" October 13, 2006
29 out of 29 found this review helpful

I love Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series and was keen to read this, the first in a new series subtitled "The Morganville Vampires". However, this book is VERY different from the Weather Warden series - our heroine is a 16 year old girl going off to College. As an English woman the American college system seems very bizarre at the best of times but Claire's experiences in her first six weeks at her new college in Morganville are even stranger. She's a bit of a brainy nerd and pretty soon falls foul of Monica, the 'cool but dim' girl who, with her acolytes, virtually runs the college. They gang up against Claire and, in order to escape various attempts to harm her, some successful, Claire moves out and starts living in an old house with two young men, Shane and Michael, and a goth girl, Eve. Once there she begins to find out some very strange things about the town of Morganville, its residents and the rules that she needs to know to be protected from the evil things out there.

Claire's discoveries of the strange events that take place in Morganville unfold through the course of the book - she discovers vampires, ghosts, a long-lost secret book - whilst having to deal with injuries, a crush on one of the young men in her house and her parents' protectiveness.

The book moves along fairly swiftly and it's interesting and well-written but I can't give it more than three stars because, for me, it was unsatisfying as it was more a book for teenagers. I'm over twice Claire's age and I just can't identify with her - or even with the setting of the college and the events taking place there. Probably it's great fun for young adults who are interested in the vampire genre but don't want anything too gory or too full of sex. I expected another novel like the Weather Warden series for adults and the information on the book's cover didn't warn me otherwise.