Dead Girl's Dance (Morganville, book 2) by Rachel Caine
Genre: Paranormal Young Adult
Edition Reviewed: Paperback
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Goodreads: The Dead Girl's Dance (1)
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.
Review:
Well it was better than the first book. I think the characters and plot development hit the right spots. We get to know more about everyone, and with the books being so small that is an issue. There's a limited time to developed characters and the world, while trying to squeeze in the plots! Dead Girls' Dance does a better job of it.
Though my real issues where how Claire handled the situations. Despite Monica, the mean (psycho) girl, trying to kill her in the last book Claire just kind of shrugs it off. I don't understand. Not to mention that rape was used as a plot device to get readers blood going. Then it wasn't handled well. Those boys should have been reported properly. I wanted to see it. Not just threatened by a vampire.
Not to mention that things just happen. Claire and company don't think things through. It worked out better here. But it still annoyed me. Yes things just happen and you have no control.
In the end this book finally got me connecting to the characters. It reminded me why I loved them so much. All of the little nuances I'm picking up are a fun look back for moments I still remember happening in the later books. Not to mention that I love Shane, Eve, Claire, and Michael. They are a fun group to be around. Lots happens, but at least the cliffhanger isn't so cruel! The entire book is a rush and I'm looking forward to the next one.
Sexual Content: Making out, smooching, and some adult thoughts. Sexual humor, check. As mentioned there was some rape issues. Things didn't go too far, but there were drugs involved. It also emphasized how seemingly nice guys become monsters.
3/5- Adored it, just a few minor details held it back.
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| Glass Houses (1) The Dead Girls' Dance (2) Midnight Alley (3) Feast of Fools (4) Lord of Misrule (5) Carpe Corpus (6) Fade Out (7) Kiss of Death (8) Ghost Town (9) Bite Club (10) Last Breath (11) Black Dawn (12) Bitter Blood (13) Fall of Night (14) Daylighters (15) | Glass Houses (1) The Dead Girls' Dance (2) Midnight Alley (3) Feast of Fools (4) Lord of Misrule (5) Carpe Corpus (6) Fade Out (7) Kiss of Death (8) Ghost Town (9) Bite Club (10) Last Breath (11) Black Dawn (12) Bitter Blood (13) Fall of Night (14) Daylighters (15) | Glass Houses (1) The Dead Girls' Dance (2) Midnight Alley (3) Feast of Fools (4) Lord of Misrule (5) Carpe Corpus (6) Fade Out (7) Kiss of Death (8) Ghost Town (9) Bite Club (10) Last Breath (11) Black Dawn (12) Bitter Blood (13) Fall of Night (14) Daylighters (15) |
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