Personally, my least favorite book was The Dead Girls' Dance, which felt like filler for a series that has a lot going on already. Not that she doesn't take things seriously, because she makes the consequences clear for these characters, but her talent is that she takes a story that could be oppressively heavy and makes it accessible and enjoyable for the reader. You really start to root and hope for them.īest of all: it's been a long time since the vampires in the story were, GASP, evil!!Įach book builds upon the last, and Caine's writing style somehow, impossibly, makes light of such tense material. The characters are incredibly relatable, all with their own desires and agendas, all trying to survive (happily, if possible) in a town that seems to always be dark. The handsome rebel with the crazy family. Michael, the gorgeous and strong angel-figure who's got a not-so-angelic secret.Įve, a young woman thrown out by her parents for not conforming to the town vampires' rules, is sweet and sunny despite the goth outfits she wears to spite the vamps.Īnd Shane. So she ends up at the university in Morganville. Ever an endearing (yes!) goody-two-shoes, though, she has compromised with her always-worried parents that she'll stay close to home for a while before she heads off to a more well-renowned school.
Rachel Caine has here established a fantastic set of characters:Ĭlaire, the small, brilliant sixteen-year-old who's already in college. That sounds so Mean Girls let's not diminish this great series (any more than the book covers do, anyway).
Prime example: the school prima donnas do a little more than remind her that she's a geek.
This little explanation makes an ocean sound like a river. That summary makes it sounds totally cheesy, right? But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better.
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