The Dead Girls' Dance : The Morganville Vampires, Book II

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.Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.

claire Danvers Faces More Challenges From Both College And The Undead In Thissecond Entry In The Morganville Vampires Series.

school Library Journal

gr 9 Up—college Should Be An Exciting Time, But For Brainy 16-year-old Claire Danvers That's Too Mild A Word. Due To Advanced Placement, Claire Can Start College Early, But Her Parents Refuse To Allow Her To Go To The Distant Ivy League School Of Her Dreams. She Goes To Texas Prairie University Where She Is Tormented By The Popular Girls—but That's The Least Of Her Worries. Morganville, Home Of The University, Is Also Home To Vampires And Vampire Hunters. Claire Finds Protection From The Horrors Of The Town In The Glass House With Three Fellow Outcasts, Goth Girl Eve, Rebellious Shane, And Michael, Who Disappears During The Day. Claire Falls For Shane And Would Do Anything To Protect Her Friends, Including Facing Down Bloodthirsty Vampires And Dangerous Bikers. Rachel Caine's First Two Books (penguin, 2006, 2007) In The Series Flesh Out The Characters And The Setting, Allowing Listeners To Really Visualize The Town. These Suspenseful Titles Are Filled With Violence, Language, And Sensual Situations. Cynthia Holloway's Narration Has A Supernatural Quality That Is Perfectly Suited To The Story, And She Does A Nice Job Of Switching Between Characters And Capturing The Changes In Claire As She Grows More Mature And Confident. Older Teens Will Fall Under Caine's Spell As She Weaves Together Scary Moments With Romantic Situations, Which Are At Times Overly Descriptive, But Not Graphic. Those Looking For Books Like Twilight, But With More Bite, Will Enjoy This Series.—sarah Flood, Breckinridge County Public Library, Hardinsburg, Ky

Claire Danvers has her share of challenges---like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm, and above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with vampires. On the up side, she has a great roommate (who tends to disappear at sunup) and a new boyfriend named Shane, whose vampire-hunting dad has called in backup: cycle punks who like the idea of killing just about anything. Now a fraternity is throwing its annual Dead Girls' Dance and---surprise!---Claire and her equally outcast best friend, Eve, have been invited. When they find out why, all hell is going to break loose. Because this time both the living and the dead are coming out---and everybody's hungry for blood. When Claire Danvers and her equally outcast best friend Eve are invited to the annual Dead Girls' Dance at a fraternity, all hell breaks loose when the living group party with the dead group in a town rampant with bloodthirsty vampires College student Claire Danvers is just learning how to stay safe in Morganville, a town ruled by vampires, when her boyfriend Shane's vampire hunting father arrives and disrupts the fragile peace