Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

A book review by Madeline Soucie

Claire is super smart. As in the girl who graduated high school and is starting college at sixteen. She could have gone to schools like MIT or Caltech, that type of thing. Instead she is attending Texas Prairie University, a small school in a small town that everyone either transfers out of or disappears from. She didn't want to go here, but her parents were against her going far away at such a young age. 

From the beginning Claire had it rough, but it only got worse when she accidentally got on the wrong side of the mean queen bee of school.  Now Claire is looking for a place to live off campus and finds the Glass House and its tenants Shane, Eve, and Michael. Though they are hesitant to take her in, after seeing how she is attacked at school, they let her in and her world soon turns upsidedown.

To start, the town is run by vampires. Secondly, there is more to her new

roommates than meets the eye. Lastly, Claire just signed on to a ride with no end without even realizing it.

Glass Houses is the first book in the Morganville Vampire series. The books are

short and quick, but really good, especially if you like vampire/supernatural stories. This series takes a new turn on the vampire legend.

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Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon

 A book review by Madeline Soucie

Nick Gautier is a street smart and tough kid trying to survive high school at the private school his mom insisted he attend. Then Nick is almost killed by his friends and saved by a mysterious warrior who brings Nick into a world he never knew existed. One where many of his fellow students aren't who they seem to be and others are being turned into zombies. Now Nick must stop whoever is behind the zombies while trying not to get grounded by his mother.

Series: Chronicles of Nick, book 1

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The Eternity Cure by Julia Kagawa

A book review by Madeline Soucie

This is the second book in the Blood of Eden series, the first being The Immortal Rules.

Allison Sekemoto was turned into a vampire as a last resort to dying. Now her life is threatened again as a new strain of the Red Lung -- a disease that almost wiped out the human race once before -- has been released.

    

Allison must also hunt down the psychotic vampire Sarren who is torturing her sire in hopes of finding a cure for the virus before time runs out. But while looking for Kanin, Allie runs into some trouble and people she didn't expect to see.

    

In the Eternity Cure all the rules Allison learned in the first book are enforced like she never knew they could be and she learns just how blood calls to blood.

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Haven (Winterhaven #1) by Kristi Cook

a book review by Sophie Messina

 

Haven by Kristi Cook is about Violet McKenna going to a school for gifted people. But she doesn’t realize this until her friends show her their powers. Violet’s visions are becoming stronger and now she thinks she can see the future. She sees visions of her father’s murder, and she wants to control them with the help of her new friends and Aidan.

This book was like Twilight goes to boarding school because Aidan turns out to be vampire, and he and Violet have a romance. Violets friends ( Kate, Sophie, Cece, and Marissa) have to learn to use their powers to face a group of vampires who are plotting to kill Aidan. Violet's visions help her learn about the killers and what’s coming up. They end up killing the vampires at the end of the year.

There are questions that pop up in the book. What do these vampires want? Is there someone on the inside of the school giving away information? What’s going to happen with Violet and Aidan? What will happen in the next book? Read this book and you decide.

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