Publisher:
Allison and
Busby
Release
date: 2nd
May 2013
Edition:
UK paperback,
purchased
Other
Titles in this Series: Glass
Houses, The
Dead Girls’ Dance, Midnight
Alley, Feast
of Fools, Lord
of Misrule, Carpe
Corpus, Fade
Out, Kiss
of Death, Ghost
Town, Bite
Club, Last
Breath, Black
Dawn, Bitter
Blood,
Thanks
to its unique mix of human and vampire residents, Morganville is a small
college town with big-time problems. But it isn’t the only town with vampire
troubles...
Claire
never thought she’d leave Morganville, but when she gets accepted into the
graduate course at MIT, she can’t pass up the opportunity. Saying goodbye to
her friends, especially her boyfriend Shane, is bittersweet, and her new life
at MIT is scary and exciting. Enrolled in a special advanced study programme
with Professor Irene Anderson, former Morganville native, Claire is able to
work on VLAD, her machine designed to cancel the mental abilities of vampires.
But
Morganville and its inhabitants are never really far from Claire’s mind. When
she begins testing her machine on live subjects, things quickly spiral out of
control, and Claire begins to wonder whether leaving Morganville was the last
mistake she’ll ever make...
Fall
of Night is
the second-to-last book in the Morganville
Vampires series so I tried to make it last. Naturally, I devoured it in two
sittings.
Claire’s shock decision after
the (also shocking) events at the end of Bitter
Blood took the fourteenth instalment of the series out of Morganville and
across the country to Cambridge, Massachusetts and MIT. At first I really didn't
like being anywhere but Morganville. I missed the Glass House gang, Myrnin,
Amelie and even Oliver; they’ve been such an integral part of Claire’s story
that it felt wrong not to have them around. I actually felt a little let down
by Fall of Night for the first time
in this series, but thankfully, that feeling disappeared about halfway through
the novel and with chapters written in Shane’s point of view.
A different setting actually
made me realise how brilliantly written and constructed this series is. The vampire
world that Caine built in Morganville works inside of itself but I’ve never
imagined it stretching any further, but of course it would. Seeing the
characters in a place without vampires was shocking and made me realise how
much Claire has grown and changed over the series. The shy, bumbling, pushover
of Glass Houses has turned into a strong,
confident and no-nonsense young woman; I felt very proud of her. The new
characters that were introduced, especially her new roommate Liz, showed how
strange a place Morganville is and how it changes you.
Though Claire has been a strong
heroine from the beginning, I didn’t quite realise how empowering, pro-equality
and for healthy, balanced relationships Morganville
is until now. With the models of Shane and Claire and Michael and Eve, some
of the partnerships of regular humans in Fall
of Night struck me as so off because of what we’ve been shown in
Morganville. It really stayed with me and I applaud Rachel Caine for such a positive
message.
As with the rest of the series,
Fall of Night is chock full of deadly
situations, lethal enemies, continuous risk and non-stop action against a story
of relationships. Not for the first time I was at a loss as to how on earth
they were going to get themselves out of trouble in the amount of pages left in
the novel. As ever, they did and went home to Morganville, realising that that’s
home. What they found there; well, Daylighters
is going to be one hell of a showdown.
After the cliffhanger of Fall of Night I can’t wait to read Daylighters but then one of my favourite
series’ is going to be over and I really want it to go on forever. I promise I’ll
take my time with that one. Maybe.
I purchased my copy from Amazon
UK.
Sophie
I gave up with this series ages ago - it's far too long for me. Glad you're still liking it though!
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