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| Morganville Vampires #15 |
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Rating: 4.5/5
While Morganville, Texas, is often a troubled town, Claire Danvers and her friends are looking forward to coming home. But the Morganville they return to isn’t the one they know; it’s become a different place—a deadly one…
Something drastic has happened in Morganville while Claire and her friends were away. The town looks cleaner and happier than they’ve ever seen it before, but when their incoming group is arrested and separated—vampires from humans—they realize that the changes definitely aren’t for the better.
It seems that an organization called the Daylight Foundation has offered the population of Morganville something they’ve never had: hope of a vampire-free future. And while it sounds like salvation—even for the vampires themselves—the truth is far more sinister and deadly.
Now, Claire, Shane and Eve need to find a way to break their friends out of Daylighter custody, before the vampires of Morganville meet their untimely end…
*ARC was provided by Penguin Books Australia via NetGalley for a fair and honest review.
It's always sad to say goodbye to one of your favourite series, especially if it has been going for as long as Morganville Vampires has. I picked this series up soon after Lord of Misrule was released in 2009 and have since spent the last five years following these characters as they grow through their many adventures. It's been a fun and enjoyable ride, and this book does the series justice, bringing Clare, Shane, Michael and Eve's adventure to a satisfying conclusion.
The atmosphere of this book was chilling. Drawing paralells from World War II Caine creates a situation in Morganville that is scarily similar to Hitler's regime, particularly the imprisonment of Jews and the knowledge/attitude of people living in viallages close by to the camps. The knowledge of what happened is enough to make the story chilling but for me there was an added element; last year I visited one of the German concentration camps and the experience, to say the least, left a lasting impression, an impression that resurfaced while reading this book. Caine did a wonderful job creating this underlying menace the Daylight Foundation and its leader brought to the town.
The characters were, as always, what makes the book so good. For Clare, Shane and Eve, they are put into a position where they have to question their idea of good and evil, what's best for the town, what they truely believe in and if what they are doing is right. It really highlights how much the characters have developed since Glass Houses. In partiuclar, we can see the huge change that has occured in Shane from someone who wants to kill the vampires and would so anything to accomplish that, to someone who understands that vampire doesn't necessarily equal evil and doesn't want to kill them on sight.
As always the plot provides enough twists and turns to keep you guessing what is going to happen and how the characters will get out of it alive. It's never easy and the characters walk a thin line with who to trust as motives and alliance can swing in either direction.
I feel fans of this series will be satisfied with the ending. It provides closure for the characters and the readers while still leaving room for more adventures if Caine decides to return to Morganville in the future. For me I feel like this is end of the adventures of Clare and the gang, but I would like a return to Morganville years from the end of the book, featuring future generations.
While this might be goodbye to the Morganville books, it's not goodbye to the series with episodes for a web tv show in the works.
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