Morganville Vampires 9: Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

 

Blurb:

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 in 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. Noe Claire need to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment - before she forgets how to save Morganville...

Review:

This one was confusing but amazing. The emotions, the action and Shane... wow. These books are amazing and I love them. A lot of the things from the other books were incorparated. These books are fantastically written, action packed, sexy, and scary.

Trailers

I found a couple of good fanmade Trailers for the Morganvilles. This is one.

And another.

Morganville Vampires 8: Kiss Of Death by Rachel Caine

Blurb:

Claire Danvers has a few things on her mind. First of all there is the laundry, which is now an unfortunate shade of pink. Then there is her 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, Claire 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?

Review:

I really liked this one. It was really good. I loved that they got out of Morganville but the trouble still followed them. But I did feel that it was normal...........BAM BAM BAM. It was kind of like everything happened at once and I didn't feel like it was that realistic. I liked that it got parts of the other books, incorparated into the book but I did find a couple of Scrubs and Friends lines in there but only right at the beggining.

I felt really sorry for them all, right at the end because they all realised they were trapped in Morganville, it made me feel guilty for ages because it must be horrible to feel trapped like that.

Slight Tweek

Watching Glee made me think a few things things.
Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson) is infact very, very tall and Lea Michelle (Rachel Berry) looks like a child compared to him.
Mathew Morrison (Mr. Schuster) has no pout.
If you watch the same glee episode twice in a day (my life is very productive when I do homework) it gets very annoying
Chord Overstreet (Sam) (Very hot!) looks a lot like my image of Michael Glass, way more than Jesse McCartney.

Chord Overstreet as Michael Glass

Morganville Vampires 7: Fade Out by Rachel Caine

Blurb:

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 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...

Review:

I thought this book was good. Good. Still confusing but really good. Really great. I so didn't like the character of either Ada or Kim but you so won't like them when you get to reading this book. But I defianatly did not like the spiders. You won't either when you read this.

I give it an 8/10

Morganville Vampires 6: Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine

Blurb:
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 its 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?

Review:

Out of the whole of this series, this one was the one that confused me the most. First, Claire seemed to grow up in a matter of days. Second, some weird stuff was going on. My mind is still trying to figure it out but I don't think I will.

The story was still good though, good plot line, confusing but good. This book was mostly centered on Claire, at the start, she feels alone and angry but toward the end she matures more with Shane. One of the only critisms I would give is that I didn't like how it was tied up in a neat little bow, leaving room for more but a totally different story to it, instead of carrying on the plot.

 

Morganville Vampires 5: Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine

Blurb:

Morganville, Texas. Just south of normal.
In the coolege town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Then comes Bishop, a master vampire who threatens to abolish all order, 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 stundent Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against the elements - both natural 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.

Review:
Dark, from start to finish. This town is strange in one more way than one, but the sense of knowing that when you go to give blood, it will go straight to someones lips. At first, I found it hard to get into but after sitting on my bed for an hour, I found it hard to stop. It was even more thrilling that the last book but the love story between Claire and Shane and the other between Michael and Eve makes your heart flutter and makes you go 'awww.'
A work of genius of Caine's front 

Morganville Vampires 4: Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine

Blurb:

It was hard to imagine how Claire's day could get any worse... And then the vampires holding her hostage wanted breakfast.

In the town of Morganville, vampires and humans have learnt to live in relative peace. Still, Calire Danvers knows that after dark, her homework can take a backseat to staying alive. But this tenuous harmony is turned on its head with the arrival of Mr Bishop.
Bad to the bone, ancient old-school vampire cares nothing about keeping the peace; staying at the top of the food chain is enough. What he wants from the town's living and dead is unthinkably sinister. It's only at a formal ball attended by vampires and their human dates that Claire realises Bishop's plan - and the elaborately evil trap he's set for the warm-blooded souls of Morganville...

Review:

Action packed, adrenaline filled, heart stopping thrill ride, from start to finish. Outstanding and amazing. My fingers gripped the page, like it was life or death, every page, something was happening, nothing stopped, my heart actually went into overdrive in parts, my mind was begging for more clues toward the end. I loved how fantastically written this was. I normally down like books that are written in the third person but this one also keyed into Claire Danvers mind. I was incredible, I would recommend it to everyone. 

Morganville Vampires Characters

Emma Watson as Claire Danvers

Chace Crawford as Shane Collins

Kristen Stewart as Eve Rosser

Jesse McCartney as Michael Glass

Steven R. McQueen as Jason Rosser

Bill Nighy as Oliver

Susan Sarandon as Amelie

Megan Fox as Monica Morrell

Thomas Dekker as Brandon

Krysten Ritter as Miranda

Dog the Bounty Hunter as Frank Collins (I know he isn't an actor but he looks a lot like my imagination of him.)

 

David Tennant as Myrnin

 Angelina Jolie as Ysandre

Jason Isaacs as Bishop

I know this is totally out of the comfort zone of my reviewing but I haven't posted in a while. I will now also do this with books that haven't got films. Hopefully. xx, I was also bored

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

Blurb:
A GIRL WITH A MORBID ABILITY
When a murder is committed it leaves a unique echo... on both the victim and the killer. Most people are unaware of these echoes but Violet Ambrose has always been able to sense them.
A SERIAL KILLER ON THE LOOSE
Now that Violet's town is in thralls of a serial killer the echoes of the local girls he has murdered are haunting her.
AND A BOY WHO WOULD NEVER LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO HER
The only shining light is Violet's best friend Jay. She's started falling for him and his fierce protectiveness gives her hope that he may feel the same...
With the police at a loss, can Violet use her ability to stop the killer or is she in danger of becoming his next victim?

Review:

I read this in the car, I read this on my uncles couch while listening to his baby scream, I read this while my sister and mum had a screaming match but I didn't even care. I was too hooked. I only blogged about a book I read yesterday and now I have finished this one. I know,  I know, I say I'm hooked in all my posts but I really am. I love this book. The chemistry between characters, the turns, the parts in the book that keep you guessing for the next couple of pages. This book is probably one of the only books in a while that isn't a Vampire/Werewolf book but it is about a serial killer and a girl who can sense murdered bodies and I think that people think I may become a slasher since murders are all I talk about when it comes on the news so this book was kind of a perfect match for me.  I say I cry in my other books but my eyes only water, my lip actually quivered in this book, more than once. My friends tried to shut me up with cellotape today because I was screaming, 'HE'S GONNA KILL HER. OH MY GOD, HE'S GONNA KILL HER!' Two of my best friends tried taking it off me in my German Lesson because I wasn't listening and I had to apparently. Personally German isn't something I want to do and I'd rather read all day. My other best friend was begging for me to let her have the book. I promised her I would finish it tonight and I did without even trying, it was a doddle.

Music: Invaders Must Die by The Prodigy

Current Book: Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine

TV: Glee on E4

Quote: Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought

           Arthur Helps

Morganville Vampires 3: Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine

Blurb:
When Claire Danvers learnt that her college town was run by vampires, she did what any intelligent, self-preserving student would do: she applied for a transfer and stocked up on garlic. The transfer is no longer an option, but the garlic may come in handy.
Now Claire has pledged herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town. The protection her contract secures does little to reassure her friends. All of a sudden people are turning up dead, a stalker resurfaces from Claire's past, an an ancient bloodsucker extends a chilling invitation for private lessons in his secluded home.

Review:

I love this series of books, from the first few pages of the first book, I was hooked straight away, and that isn't easy for me (two times to finish Twilight). I love the character of Claire because it shows that intelligence isn't bad if you have your friends and even though your friends are as crazy and weird, it doesn't matter because they are your friends in tough situations. I mean, a goth girl with a serious problem with her brother, a newly turned vampire who acts like your older brother and your boyfriend has a problem with your other house mates, all vampires, your arch enemy and his dad and sometimes with you when you got yourself into trouble.

I love how this book gives two different views of vampires without going anywhere neat the Twilight view. You can be good and drink from blood bags or you can be bad and go for the humans without protection.

I love the characters, I love the plot, I love the setting. I love the Morganvilles.

Music:            Ghost Town by Shiny Toy Guns

Current Book: The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

TV:                 Grease

Quote:            Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

                      Peter Ustinov

The Lost Saint by Bree Despain

Blurb:

Grace Divine made the ultimate sacrifice to cure Daniel Kalbi. She was infected with the werewolf curse while trying to save him and lost her beloved brother in the process.

Desperate to find Jude, Grace befriends Talbot, a newcomer to town. But as the two grow closer, Grace's relationship with Daniel is put in danger - in more ways than one.

Unaware of the dark path she is walking, Grace begins to give into the wolf inside her - not realising that the enemy has returned and a deadly trap is about to be sprung.

 

When I started this book I was hooked, not wanting to put it down but sleep and school came in the way and my teachers did threaten to consficate it. It was the same way with the first installment of the Dark Divine novels, I went into solitary in my room and refused to come out until I had finished. But this book is an excellent sequel to this series. Most sequels are bad because when an author thinks they have a story to come out of it, they don't but my God Bree Despain did and she has left leaveway for a lot more. The twists and turns make you hate Grace but then four pages later you want to hug her and tell everything was going to be okay. People she trusts could be out against her and you have no idea who's her friend and who's her enemy until the last few pages. I found the love story between Daniel and Grace heartbreaking and it just wanted to make me cry toward the end.

I would totally recommend this book to anyone who loves werewolf fiction because it has so much action and so much despare that it makes putting the book down impossible

Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

This book was amazing when I read it. The story of a teenage girl feeling like an outcast in her own colony is what most girls feel like in High Schools/ Secondry Schools, I feel know I do so that's why I connected with her. I like the idea that it isn't just a love story between Chase and Bryn but it's about finding the truth about the lies that Bryns adoptive father had been telling her. I love the story between her and her friends and how they depend on each other like real teenagers do and how they can share their quirkiness with each other and we have an eccletic group of them. I love the wolves and pack mentalilty and how the author really followed real wolves in the wild and how the alpha would punish the person who needed to be punished until the rest of the pack got justice.
I'm a big fan of werewolf/vampire fiction because of Shiver (Maggie Stiefvater) which I totally reccomend and Vampire Academy (Richelle Mead)which I feel the same about and Twilight (Stephanie Meyer) which is really good because of Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson (I have no idea why I put TL down when I would rather have Jackson Rathbone)
I know I haven't reported this well but i have to be quick because my mother is threatening to take my Laptop away. I'll do better next time.

Music:                  The Captain by Biffy Clyro
Current Book:       The Lost Saint by Bree Despain
TV:                       Big Fat Quiz Of The Year on Channel 4
Current Quote:      All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
                              Orizon Swett Marden