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The Dead Girls' Dance (The Morganville Vampires, Book 2) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: NAL Jam
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 2336
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0451220897
EAN: 9780451220899
ASIN: 0451220897
Publication Date: April 3, 2007
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Product Description
Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.
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 Great addition to the series January 1, 2009
I avidly anticipated this book after devouring Glass Houses, the first book in the Morganville Vampires series centering around a town that is run by the undead. While it didn't hook me in as much as the first one had, it is still a thrilling read.
Buffy's Sunnydale definitely has a run for its money when it comes to Morganville--the vampires are much more threatening, devious, and collected, plus there isn't even a Buffy around to protect the humans from being dinner. (Unless a vengeful pack of biker guys counts, that is.) The stakes (no pun intended) are raised higher in this book, Claire and her friends stuck dealing with how to get rid of the said biker guys without getting burned by the vamps--which, for some, can be interpreted quite literally. The story felt stretched out a little bit, but the emotional journey the characters go through makes it well worth reading. My biggest complaint would have to be Monica's character, because even though she's supposed to be Claire's college nemesis, there were a few times where it would have felt more natural to have her display some shades of gray. The series is still thoroughly addicting, this book beginning right where the first left off without any confusion and ending with another cliffhanger that, while not as heart-stopping as the first, still makes you impatient for the next one to see what will happen next.
Twisted, December 22, 2008
Like the book before this book is filled with action like a roller coaster. You dont know who you can trust and you just get fustrated with James. Amelie the oldest Vampire comes more into play. cant wait till the next book.
 Right up your alley... September 24, 2008
I love the Twilight Series and was upset when I had finished reading them. I was searching for more great books to read and found them. The Morganville Vampires series is amazing. It's right up there with "Twilight". You will not be dissapointed. I can not wait until the next one is published.
Fantastic Series August 25, 2008
This series is absolutely fantastic. It's a young adult series but it definitely shouldn't stop anyone from reading it (I mean look at Harry Potter, we all read that, and it started out considered a Middle Grade series. A good book is a good book, no matter the intended age group.)
Claire Danvers is an incredibly bright girl, and at 16, she's already in college living away from her parents. Trouble with one of the mean girls at school and her gang of thugs has caused Claire to opt for living off campus. She lives in the Glass house. A spooky house owned by Michael Glass who is dead, a ghost by day, and alive by night. She also lives with a goth girl named Eve and a normal guy named Shane.
Morganville has vampires, it's like vampire headquarters. In this book they are the vamp equivalent of the mafia. The humans in the town sign up with a vamp for his/her protection. They donate blood. They wear metal arm bands that show they are protected, with their patron's symbol on it. It's all very neat and tidy. For a YA novel, these are some of the creepiest vampires I've come across in awhile.
I really love this series and will definitely be picking up book three as soon as possible. The first book in this series is called: "Glass Houses"
Keep them coming! August 21, 2008
I love this series. It is such a breath of fresh air, in a genre that seems to keep repeating itself as far as plots and character development. In Rachel Caine's vampire world, Morganville, the vamps are pretty scary guys and they have convienant ways of 'hiding' people who go missing. And a lot of people DO go missing in Morganville. An extra curve is thrown to the story line when we realize that the crazy band of vampire hunters, led by Shane's father, are scary and bad too. They don't care who gets killed in their quest to rid Morganville of its vampires. Shane gets swept along in his father's plans and gets captured and its up to Claire and her ghostly friend Michael and his goth girlfriend Eve, to save Shane. Will Claire stop at nothing to save Shane? Michael seems to be making some unholy deals of his own. I encourage everyone to read this series. It has only gotten better since its amazing debut "Glass Houses". There is no lack of action or suspense. The relationships are cute and realistic and as an adult I can easily overlook that this is meant to be a Young Adult novel. I also must reiterate that this book stands out from the Twilight series and in a positive way. There is more action, more plot, and the characters are strong people.
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