Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine

The Morganville Vampires Book 3: Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine
Publisher: Penguin Group
Genre: Action/Adventure, Contemporary, Paranormal, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Suspense/Mystery
Age Recommendation: 12+
Length: Full Length (245 pgs)
Rating: 4 suns
Reviewed by Tiger Lily

Claire Danvers’s college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it’s giving night school a whole new meaning.

What do you do when you’re a human blood bank and you’re in the care of a vampire? Hope he’s not really hungry!

That said, you need to read Midnight Alley.

I read the other books in this series and I have to say each ends with a cliff hanger, but this one is a doozy. Things are going from bad to worse in the college town and there seems to be only a handful of individuals who can make things livable.

I liked Claire in the first two books. Here, she becomes a tad predictable. You know she’s the one who will save the day. She’s got a keen sense of who is good and who will cause trouble. For the high price of the medicine ordered will reach to you in viagra sale buy short at the doorstep of you. It gets you a harder erection within fifteen minutes of its intake which means the ingredients gets melted into the blood after about cialis wholesale india 30 minutes of having these pills. Consumption of this herb rejuvenates skin and increases purchasing here buy levitra fairness and glow. Obesity is also a chief contributing levitra pill price factor for diabetes. It’s nice for continuity sake, but I wanted to see her trip up and trust the wrong person without getting hurt.

Whereas Shane was a hunky hero for Claire in the prior books, in this one, he comes off as a huge jerk. But there are reasons for his attitude. I identified with his moodiness because he sees the world crumbling around him and the only way he knows how to deal is to let the anger bubble over.

There is a lot of back story and side explanations that can trip the reader up. I found myself rereading in a handful of place to keep track of what’s happening. Still, the secondary characters have their own little foibles and quirks which kept me entertained. I liked her over protective parents. Who doesn’t think their folks hover too much? It added a sense of realism and humanity that seemed a bit overshadowed in the book otherwise.

If you want to read a quirky vampire novel, then you need to read Midnight Alley. I give it 4 suns.