This, the tenth book in The Morganville Vampires series, packs just as much of a punch -literally- as the first one. A great story for any reader, those familiar with at least the first work in the series may have an easier time following the plot, but Caine provides excellent exposition to fill in new readers.

Claire would like to just continue her life, a life that consists of living in an almost-living house with her laid-back boyfriend, a goth barista, and a ghost-turned-vampire. However, tensions run high as Claire's boyfriend, Shane, has an increasingly difficult time keeping his anti-vampire prejudices under control, Claire is threatened by the campuses "mean girls," and supposedly dead and gone---or at least gone---bad guys return to the town to wreak havoc.

Excellently written, BITE CLUB not only demonstrates what might happen in a human-vs-vampire competitive fighting scenario, it also continues to document the alienation one feels when life just keeps throwing one surprise after another.