Ghost Town

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Reading Log;
Monday, March 25th-Friday, March 29th
12:30 P.M.-2:00 P.M.


             I'm going to start my review of Ghost Town with Claire and Shane. Shane ask Claire out to a drive in movie, while Eve goes to a rave party with a friend. While Claire and Shane are starting their date Claire receives a frantic call from Eve. The party it seems is being crashed by some humans and now vampires as well. Claire and Shane race to the party to save Eve. Once they arrive at the location of the rave it is a disaster with people running everywhere.
            Once they make it in they see dead humans and vampires. Claire and Shane get attacked so Claire stakes a female vampire with a silver stake. The vampire turns out to have a deadly reaction to silver, and dies. In Morganville the penalty for killing a vampire is death. Amelie instead orders Claire to work with Myrnin to get the city's defense system back running again. The system keeps people from remembering anything about the vampires in Morganville, among other things. Claire must stay awake until the task is done, with only breaks to eat, drink, and use the bathroom. If she fails than she will die and Myrnin will more than likely use her brain to run the machine.
             Claire gets the machine working, but Myrnin makes a few changes without Claire's knowledge. The problem is everyone is forgetting people they know. It is erasing the last three years of their life, it is also affecting vampires. Shane, Eve, and Michael are also affected. Amelie and Oliver finally come and help only after Amelie gets her memory back. Shane, Michael, and Eve help as well even though they still do not have their memory back. Shane's dad Frank also helps, he is a vampire now. They end up blowing the machine up with a grenade that Frank brought. Before Frank uses the grenade he is pinned under some debris and can not be helped. He saves everyone by telling them to run, then blows the machine up. The book ends with Myrnin calling Claire to his lab. When she arrives he informs her that he has fixed the machine again. The big surprise is it is running again because Myrnin is using Franks brain to run it. He wants Claire to keep it a secret, especially from Shane.

Lord of Misrule, Carpe Corpus, Fade Out, and Kiss of Death

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Reading Log:
Monday, March 18, 2013-Saturday, March 23, 2013
Monday-Wednesday, 10:30 P.M.-1:00 A.M.
Thursday-Saturday, 11:30 P.M.-1:30 A.M.

       Well let m start by saying that I have been a busy reader. I left off with book four, Feast of Fools and now I am up to book eight, Kiss of Death. The books are not that long, most less than two-hundred pages. I will try my best to sum up all these books as best as possible.

 

        Let me start with the huge storm that tore through Morganville, which produced a tornado. Mr. Bishop had the idea to get all the humans to town hall where he was for safety. Only the real reason was so he and his followers could drain them. Later Claire has to side with Bishop in order to try to protect her friends. They believe she turned on them so their friendships suffer. End the end they reconcile, also Claire and Myrnin may have found the cure for the vampire disease.

 

        Sam (Michael's Grandfather) ends up paying with his life to save the people of Morganville from Mr. Bishop. Amelie and Sam drank poison in the hope that Mr. Bishop would bite one of them. Well he did bite Sam, but drained him. In turn Mr. Bishop was poisoned and weakened enough to capture. He is now in prison somewhere in Morganville. A new girl named Kim comes into the picture. She is Shane's Ex and becomes Eve's new best friend. Claire is very jealous. She ends up an enemy that was trying to expose Morganville vampires by putting hidden cameras all over town, including Shane and Michael's bedrooms.

 

        They finally get a break and get to leave Morganville, if only for a week. Shane, Michael, Claire, and Eve all accompanied by Oliver get to go to Dallas so Michael can record a record. Their trip does not go as planned. First they get in a fight with some small town bullies that end up burning Eve's car. Then Claire, Eve, and Shane are kidnapped by a crazy vampire and his followers that were escaping from Morganville. Michael and Oliver drive to a ghost town to save Shane and Eve. They saved Claire on the way. The town seems to be deserted only because most of the town has been turned by Mr. Bishop when he was on his way to Morganville. The vampires are all infected with the vampire disease so the gang cures them.

 

         When it was all said and done the vampire that kidnapped Claire and her friends ended up staying in the town as "mayor". Everyone else is back in Morganville, safe for now.

 

                             

  

 

Midnight Alley and Feast Of Fools

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Reading Log:
Monday, March 11, 2013-Saturday, March 18, 2013
10:00 P.M.-11:30 P.M. Daily


            We left off with Claire pledging her service to Amelie. Claire is finding herself in more trouble protected than she was before pledging herself to Amelie. I have now read book three and four: Midnight Alley, and Feast Of Fools. I will try to summarize both books into one. Claire has been forced by Amelie to study alchemy with Myrnin, an unstable ancient vampire. He is crazy due to a disease that is slowly killing all vampire. He has killed every assistant that Amelie has sent him, now there is Claire.
            To make matters worse Clare's parents moved to town, thanks to Amelie. Also with Amelie's father Mr. Bishop in town, things are bound to get deadly. He invites all vampires to a formal ball, and they are to bring a human as well. Mr. Bishops daughter Ysandre brings Shane. She has taken a liking to him. Michael brings Monica much to Eves surprise.
            Claire finds out that the ball is a trap to bring humans there to slaughter. This is why Micheal did not bring Eve, but he could not tell her the reason. Claire and Myrnin go to the ball together to stop the blood bath. Claire stands up for Amelie and as she is standing next to her Eve's brother Jason stakes Amelie in the heart. She does survive since she is very old. The older the vampire the more it takes to kill them.
            Myrnin pledges himself to Mr. Bishop and runs out the room laughing, leaving Claire to defend herself. Claire and her friends survive but the war is just beginning.

The Dead Girls Dance

Saturday, March 09, 2013

Reading Log:
Monday, March 04, 2013-Friday, March 08, 2013
11:00 P.M.-12:30 A.M. daily



                 Well I finished the first book in the series, Glass Houses. Now I have finished the second book titled, The Dead Girls Dance. I found out why Shane returned to Morganville. He returned so he could scout the area for his anti-vampire dad. His dad wants to kill all vampires. Shane changed his mind shortly after his return, but that has not stopped his dad. Well Mr. Collins returned to Morganville on a rampage. His first stop was Michael's house where Claire, Eve, Michael, and Shane live. He believes Michael is a vampire since he is never around during the day. As you know from my previous blog Michael is half human, half ghost. So he is not around during the day because he is a ghost. Well Mr. Collins does not know this. So he has his bodyguards kill Michael. They stack him through the heart and cut off his head. Since Michael is half ghost he can not be killed, he returns at sunset.
                   Mr. Collins also kills Brandon. He was the vampire that was following Claire and Eve. Brandon is accused of the murder because he was at the scene of the crime, trying to stop his dad. Shane is caged to be publicly burned. In order to help Shane, Claire and Eve got to a party called the dead girls dance. They are looking for Sam, Michael's vampire grandfather. Sam is the only vampire that they can trust in order to get help. While there Claire is drugged and almost raped. Sam rescues her just in time before Mr. Collins arrives and kills anyone he believes is a vampire. They return home just in time to hear Michael asking Amelie (Vampire Queen) to turn him to a vampire. He is tired of being stuck in his house. He is successfully turned. Shane hates that Michale has turned and he hates him.
                     Now Claire strikes a deal with Amelie as well. She offers her lifelong service to Amelie in return for protection. Claire feels like this is the only way to protect herself and her friends from the dangers of Morganville. One danger is the second in command vampire named Oliver. Claire and friends found out that Eve's boss at the coffee shop was a vampire, and the vampire that tried to change Michael. I also found out why Brandon was following Eve. Her family is protected by Brandon, and he tried to force himself on Eve. This is why she refused his protection and left her home. Well what is going to happen now that Claire has signed over her life?

Morganville Vampires, Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

Friday, March 01, 2013

Reading Log;
Friday, March 01, 2013--9:00A.M. to 11:00 A.M.


              Well let me start out be introducing myself. My name is Bridgett, and I'm a Mother, Wife, and Student. I started this blog for one of my college courses, I'm majoring in Elementary Education. You may be thinking why did I pick a young adult series to read, and blog about? Well I have a love for young adult books. Some include Harry Potter, The Twilight Series, and The Hunger Games to name a few. Well I guess I should share what I have been reading.

              There are fourteen books in the Morganville Vampires Series, the first one Glass Houses. I started reading glass houses today, and I'm already hooked. The main character in the book is 16 year old, Claire Danvers. She is a student at Texas Prairie University, in Morganville Texas. Morganville Texas is run by vampires. She is exceptionally intelligent and tends to say stuff without thinking at times. This has gotten her in trouble from the very beginning of the book. She makes enemies with Monica a fellow student who is under vampire protection. She is making life hell for Claire, and her friends. Claire had to leave the dorm for fear of her life. This is how she meets her friends. They are looking for a roommate and Claire was chosen. It seems that Monica is having a vampire in town named Brandon follow and harass Claire and her friends.
  
              Claire's friends are Michael Glass, Shane Collins, and Eve Rosser. Michael Glass is the owner of the glass house where Claire is now living. Claire comes to find out that Michael is a human by night, and a ghost by day. He was attacked by a vampire and was unsuccessfully turned. He can not leave the house even when in ghost form, he does not know why at this point. There is also Shane Collins. He is a bad boy but is very protective of Claire. His sister was killed in a house fire that he believes was caused by Monica. Now he is determined not to let Claire get hurt as well by Monica. He briefly left Morganville after the fire but has returned, I have not yet found out his reason for returning. Then we have Eve Rosser. She is a Morganville native and dresses in goth clothing. She seems to be very hurt by someone or something. She seems to be very close to Shane and Michael though. She refused vampire protection so her parents kicked her out at the age of Eighteen.

             I'm so excited to read this book more and see what happens. By my next post next week I will have book one finished and share what I learned. Then on to book two!