It also has a solid paranormal mystery and action plot line that will entertain adults as well as teenagers.

The book deals with teenage issues living away from home for the first time, going to college, making new friends (and enemies) and the mechanics of having your first serious kiss. There are vampires and their flunkies everywhere and knowing who you can trust is a real problem. There are a lot of strange disappearances and nobody dares step out of line or speak up, apart from the rebellious teenage residents of the Glass House. Morganville, the town where the book is set, has a bit of a Lost Boys vibe. Whilst Glass Houses is a book aimed at the Young Adult market it is a book that can be enjoyed by adults too. Glass Houses is book one of The Morganville Vampires series written by fantasy and romance author Rachel Caine. However, Morganville is a town full of secrets and some of the roommates have secrets of their own… The Review Luckily Claire’s new friends have her back and they hatch a plan to deal with the vampires and help her stay alive.

When Monica says she’s going to see Claire dead, she really means it. In Morganville you have two choices - you either work for the vampires and have their protection or you are fair game. Her new roommates are the best thing about living in Morganville because, as it turns out, Eve isn’t crazy and the town is run by vampires. He’s eighteen and although he doesn’t seem to do anything much all day apart from make chilli and kill zombies whilst playing computer games, Claire thinks he’s totally cool. Although, she also claims that Morganville is a town run by vampires, so she could just be crazy.įinally, there is Shane. Ever.Įve, a Goth girl who works at the local coffee shop and is a fellow roommate in the Glass House swears that Michael’s okay and is not a vampire and she would know because she’s checked…. In fact, nobody has ever seen him during the day. Accepted into the house, she finally feels like she is making some real friends, even if they are a little odd.įirstly, there is Michael the owner of the house, he’s only eighteen and a complete night owl. Unable to stay in the dorm, Claire looks for off-campus accommodation and answers an advert in the paper for a room-to-let in a creepy old shared house.

Clever and geeky, Claire never expected to fit in with the in-crowd of fashionable and popular girls but when she inadvertently makes an enemy of the clique’s leader Monica, she had no idea how bad things would get. It’s an unprestigious college in equally unprestgious small college town. Claire Danvers is a freshman at college in Morganville, Texas.

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