Book: The Dead Girls’ Dance by Rachel Caine

Published by Penguin Group

Purchased for my Nook (256 pages)

Genre: YA: Paranormal

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Goodreads Summary: Claire Danvers has her share of challenges—like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm, and above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with vampires. On the up side, she has a great roommate (who tends to disappear at sunup) and a new boyfriend named Shane, whose vampire-hunting dad has called in backup: cycle punks who like the idea of killing just about anything.

Now a fraternity is throwing its annual Dead Girls’ Dance and—surprise!—Claire and her equally outcast best friend, Eve, have been invited. When they find out why, all hell is going to break loose. Because this time both the living and the dead are coming out—and everybody’s hungry for blood.

I just love this series, even thought I’ve only read the first couple books.  It picks up where Glass Houses left off.

I just love the characters but they were all over the place.  Like the thing Michael did at the end?  Not what I expected.  Monica didn’t seem like her usual  crazy, threatening self either.

I really enjoyed the race to save Shane from being burned alive.  Definitely a lot of mystery- even though it was pretty obvious Shane would be saved at the end.  Things between Shane and Claire seem rushed, especially at the end, but overall, it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.  I didn’t like Shane as much in this novel but hopefully he’ll be more like the Shane we met in Glass Houses.  Eve was just okay, and Michael is really interesting.  He’s still him, and I’m really curious as to what Caine does with him in the rest of the series.

I really love the town of Morganville and how I can picture everything so clearly.  Plus, I love the way the town is set up and structured and how they deal with things.  And Shane’s relationship with his dad (who is slightly crazy but still interesting) is also interesting.  Plus, learning about his sister and his mother and how they died was interesting.  Learning about characters is good, and so far, Caine seems pretty good about pacing the little tidbits we get.

Morganville is a crazy town, but I love that about it.  And I love that things aren’t progressing slowly- Claire and her friends seem to get more and more involved with the craziness.

It gets a 5 out of 5.  It was fun, and I just love the vampires in this series.