004 - Glass Houses // Rachel Caine

After the diaster that was Twilight, it was refreshing to read a teen Vampire novel that got it right. Glass Houses is the story of a sixteen (nearly seventeen!) year old girl who fast-tracker her way to first year college, only to be stuck in the town of Morganville so her parents can keep her as close as they can to home (one assumes that they live less than an hour away, but it's never really specified) and on the hitlist of the school's bitch-queen. After a violent attack in her dorm, Claire is forced to look for other accomidations and ends up living in the Glass House, an old "Gone with the Wind meets The Munsters"-looking place with a trio of mysterious characters who don't seem to be faring through life much better than she is.

Through her new roommates she learns the truth about Morganville--that it is 1) run by Vampires, and 2) yes, Vampires really exist.

Things go downhill for her from there.

I loved it.

And as it ends with a cliffhanger, I'm off to start on the second one... man am I ever glad I bought them both at the same time.

4 out of 5 stars