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Glass Houses
by Rachel Caine
I'd like to preface this by saying that this series is very popular among its intended audience, which I am too old to be a part of.
Anyway I've been trying to read a bunch of the paranormal teen romance series cuz for awhile the only one I had read was Twilight. And... I'm honestly surprised at how good Twilight is compared to a lot of these??
Anyway so like Michael and Shane are totes swoony or whatever but the entire town of Morganville makes no sense. Is this spoilers? Whatever. It's run by vampires so like, they make a big deal about how you can't buy wood at Home Depot because you could use it to make stakes or crosses. But they never say there aren't TREES in Morganville. IDK it just seems like there's tons of stuff you could make a cross out of. You could rubberband two pens together and make a cross. Bam. Also they make a big deal about how there are NO CHURCHES in Morganville, because vampires, but then Claire just happens to stumble into one at the exact moment she needs a church.
WHATEVER MORGANVILLE
WHATEVER
(Yes I'm overthinking this probably but they were really trying to drive home how the vampires controlled everything and just like... it seems like maybe they overlooked some very obvious things.)
Also I hate this trend of series books where it ends on SUCH a cliffhanger that it's not even really an ending. If your book is good enough people will pick up book 2 even if they don't need to just to figure out how the first book ended.
Also Claire's parents are idiots. Like... they're worried about Claire so they won't let her go to an Ivy League college, but they do let her go off to Morganville which by all accounts looks like a creepy vampire-ridden ghost town. Then they're unconcerned that she's being bullied/hazed but they want her to immediately withdraw from school when they find out that her housemates have a six-pack of beer.
Actually everything about this feels like it was written by an angsty teenager. Was it? Nope I just looked it up and Rachel Caine is 50 years old. Anyway she's clearly speaking to the angsty teen audience, sooo good for her.
Anyway I've been trying to read a bunch of the paranormal teen romance series cuz for awhile the only one I had read was Twilight. And... I'm honestly surprised at how good Twilight is compared to a lot of these??
Anyway so like Michael and Shane are totes swoony or whatever but the entire town of Morganville makes no sense. Is this spoilers? Whatever. It's run by vampires so like, they make a big deal about how you can't buy wood at Home Depot because you could use it to make stakes or crosses. But they never say there aren't TREES in Morganville. IDK it just seems like there's tons of stuff you could make a cross out of. You could rubberband two pens together and make a cross. Bam. Also they make a big deal about how there are NO CHURCHES in Morganville, because vampires, but then Claire just happens to stumble into one at the exact moment she needs a church.
WHATEVER MORGANVILLE
WHATEVER
(Yes I'm overthinking this probably but they were really trying to drive home how the vampires controlled everything and just like... it seems like maybe they overlooked some very obvious things.)
Also I hate this trend of series books where it ends on SUCH a cliffhanger that it's not even really an ending. If your book is good enough people will pick up book 2 even if they don't need to just to figure out how the first book ended.
Also Claire's parents are idiots. Like... they're worried about Claire so they won't let her go to an Ivy League college, but they do let her go off to Morganville which by all accounts looks like a creepy vampire-ridden ghost town. Then they're unconcerned that she's being bullied/hazed but they want her to immediately withdraw from school when they find out that her housemates have a six-pack of beer.
Actually everything about this feels like it was written by an angsty teenager. Was it? Nope I just looked it up and Rachel Caine is 50 years old. Anyway she's clearly speaking to the angsty teen audience, sooo good for her.