College can be quite frightening and stressful on its own,
but if you're Claire Danvers, it's downright deadly.
That's because the college town of Morganville Texas is run
by Vampires. This, until recently, wasn't too bad, if you
didn't mind donating blood to blood banks to feed the
vampires, keeping their secret, and never leaving
Morganville. But now the evil vampire Bishop is in
charge. Donating blood isn't something the Red Cross may
assist you with any longer, and your life is at Bishop's
whim, human and vampires alike.
For Claire, things just couldn't get any worse. Her
boyfriend Shane is being held captive with a pending
execution, her best friend Eve hates her since Claire has
been made the evil minion of Bishop, while Eve's boyfriend
and vampire Michael is a slave to Bishop as well. The
vampires Claire had come to trust and rely on now either
were captives of Bishop's or missing. To Claire, there
seems to be no way out.
But in Morganville a resistance is rising. One that will
once again put Claire in the middle of a life and death
game in which fatalities will be a result of for both
vampires and humans, and the future of the occupants of
Morganville becomes uncertain as well.
Rachel Caine gives us CARPE CORPUS, the sixth book in the
Morganville Vampires series, with the same gripping zest in
her writing as the previous books. Readers will find
themselves moving smoothly from chapter to chapter, not
wanting to put the book down for fear of missing what comes
next in Morganville. She tackles the first sexual
experience of the young heroine Claire with a delicate
crafting so that the touching awkwardness is there yet
there also the responsibility needed, without preaching to
the younger readers. The story ties up neatly in the end
with a bit of an unexpected twist, yet it lets the reader
know there is still more to watch in Morganville with the
next book. I look forward to Fade Out, the next
installment of the Morganville Vampires, in November later
this year.
In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and
humans lived in (relative) peace—until all the rules got
rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for
the lost book of vampire secrets. He’s kept a death grip on
the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is
brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even
greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its
inhabitants—the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and
her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even
if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to
go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?
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