Morganville Vampires

I have been reading the first 11 books of the "Morganville Vampires" by Rachel Caine. And I've gotta say: I love them! It was my friend Josephine, who recommended them, and I have thanked her many times since. Though it is not as good as "the Sookie Stackhouse" series, it is unique and very well written. Great plot and awesome characters. I do praise these books very much.


The books take place in a town in Texas, called Morganville. As you can imagine, this town is not regular. The main character 'Claire' is a teenager, who is very smart, and graduated hight school two years early. Her parents think 16 is too young to go to the MIT, so they send her to a college in Morganville. Here she is met with aggression, and as Monica Morell with her 'back-up dancers' push Claire down a set of stairs, she is too frightened to live on campus anymore. She seeks out a house in town called "The glass house", where they apparently need another roommate. This is where she first off meet Michael Glass, Shane Collins and Eve Rosser, who later become her best friends. She even hooks up with Shane, as Eve does with Michael.
The town is leaded by vampires, mostly by the Founder Amelie, who takes speciel interest in young Claire because of her cleverness. Claire later starts to work for an ancient vampire, called Myrnin. The job is top-secret and takes place in a lab under town, where she has to help her crazy boss protect the town from everything. There are a lot of rules in Morganville, and the punishments are different as well as almost everything else. It is not unnormal to be burned alive if you piss off the vampires.

Every book has its own plot, one even more exciting than the other, and Claire experiences a lot, such as bombs, Evil ancient vampires, crazy vampires and crazy humans who challenge the vampires. I cannot encourage you enough - everybody should read these books.

Every book should be judged on its own, but overall I will give these books 4 out of 5 fangs - though very close to 5/5. :o) Enjoy!

My Name is Memory

First of all, I want to apologize for the long period of time without any updates; I've been busy with school, but I have had some time to read though.

In February I finished "My Name is Memory" by Ann Brashares. In the begging I thought I was making a mistake reading it. It was sooo slow and boring! But as the story went on, I was caught in the universe of young Daniel and it became quite exciting.

This book kind of has two main characters, Lucy and the most important: Daniel. In Ann Brashares world, souls keep on living after the body dies; we all are reborn again and again. A few people remember their past lives, as Daniel. In his first life he "accidently" killed Lucy and he has regretted it ever since. Every time he is reborn, his only goal is to find his love and be with her. But it has never really been possible due to many factors as she being old and him being a kid or something else. Finally in "this" life, Lucy believes the story Daniel tells. But just as they think everything is going to be OK, an old enemy appears and threatens to kill them both.

It is a quite interesting story, once you get over the first couple og chapters. It may seem very boring at first, but if you keep on reading, it will catch your curiosity and soon you just have to know if Lucy will believe Daniel, and if they will finally end up together. "My Name is Memory" is the first book of a trilogy, and I will give it 4 out of 5 fangs. :o) Enjoy!

The Vampire Diaries - The Hunters: Phantom (nr. 8)

In the beginning when I was reading "Phantom" (the 8th Vampire Diaries Book) by L.J. Smith, I thought it was pretty lame compared to the others. But as I went along, the passion, love and humour I was used to from the first books came along. It was heavy to begin with, but the VD charm found it's way back.

This time Elena is back with her family, and everything is back to normal, except the time that passed still did so. The guardians did a great job making everything as it should be in the town. But they couldn't bring back Damon, and losing him is tearing up both Stefan and Elena. The loss even starts to split them apart.
A new threat arrives and soon nobody in the small group feels save. Alaric is back in town, with his new friend Celia, and even those two are in danger. They cannot figure out where the threat is coming from, but soon they realize it's bigger and more dangerous than they feared. They have to have more faith in each other than before, and secrets are being revealed.

As I said, in the beginning this book didn'tquite capture me, but soon enough I was absorbed. I will give this book 4 out of 5 fangs even though the beginning may only derserve 3. :o) Enjoy!