Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58951 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

Teenage Fiction
The characters were somewhat likeable but I was frustrated upon reading it that the Lead Characters were Teenagers - I had not known that upon purchasing the book and I too believe it should have been listed as Young Adult Fiction.

I was also disappointed that the lead character did not come out with any particular talent, other than being very intelligent. It was a Sunday afternoon read and I am reluctant to purchase the sequels.

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
All Claire Danvers wanted was a normal college experience. Preferably somewhere far away, but when her parents send her to Morganville, Texas, she's still glad to be going to college, even if she is, at sixteen, the youngest college student around. Morganville is a small college town, and Claire's prepared to make the best of her fresh start. Unfortunately, things don't turn out the way anyone expected or wanted them to.

At first, Claire's existence is made miserable by a few girls in her dorm who torment her. Dorm life, for Claire, is not all it's cracked up to be--in fact, it's pretty much as miserable as she thinks it can get, so Claire decides to move out and find a place off-campus. Luck is with her; she ends up at a spooky-looking mansion with a room she can actually afford, and three roommates who actually turn out to be pretty cool, even if they have reservations about letting her move in at first. Michael, Shane, and Eve are all eighteen, and Claire's a couple of years younger.

If Claire thought being harassed in her dorm was bad, she didn't know Morganville's secrets. When she moves out of the dorm, however, she learns that there's more to Morganville than there seems to be. The town is run by vampires. Yes, actual vampires that can't go out in the daytime and drink human blood at night. If Claire's not careful, it could end up being her blood they're drinking...

GLASS HOUSES is a great book for fans of vampire novels. Claire and her roommates are quite likeable as characters, and, perhaps making the book even better, the bad guys are just as easy to hate as the inhabitants of the Glass House are to like. In Morganville, Rachel Caine has created a mysterious, intriguing, and spooky town run by the undead (I was a bit
reminded of Buffy's hometown of Sunnydale). The writing is great, and there are few flaws in this awesome book.

Claire doesn't ask nearly as many questions as might be expected of someone who had just been let in on the secret that she's living in a town run by vampires; it seems like that might be a way of keeping some questions and suspense in the story, but it struck me as a bit unrealistic while reading. Even with its minor flaws, though, this is a book that will have readers hooked and ready for more in this series!

Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce

Teenage characters but a worthwile read.
The main characters are teenagers but there is a bit more to it than teen lit, or I must be approaching my second childhood since I really enjoyed it. The story could have done with a bit more depth, but it was very atmospheric and a good tale in its own right although it is evidently setting the scene for a new series, which I am looking forward to.