Just finished reading Rachel Caine's latest installment in the Morganville Vampires series, Carpe Corpus. It was definitely up there as far as my favorites go. Maybe not first place...I still really have a soft spot in my heart for the first book, but very exciting and well written. Lots of action (including some we've been waiting for the WHOLE FREAKING TIME) and she still managed to surprise me with a couple of wicked twists and turns. And you really can't help but to love Shane <3.
One of my favorite things about Rachel Caine is that she's not afraid to take risks in her writing. A lot of authors have a centralized cast that stays stable from one book to the next, and while Rachel Caine does that also, she's not afraid to take what you know about those characters and tweak it in an unexpected way so that they seem to develop along the way. And unlike some authors, she's not afraid to kill off major players (cough *Stephenie Meyer* cough).
Side Note: For real, that really really bothers me. If there's a war or an epic battle of some sort (you too, JK Rowling), people are going to die. Not just the bad guys. Not just the people who I have to sit there and go "who the hell was that?" until I reread the book 11 times and figure out why they were ever mentioned to begin with. Real, important characters that I am actually attached to.
End Rant.
Anyway, if you haven't checked out any books in the series, I would highly recommend it. Another great thing about them? They are like $6.99, so pretty much fit into every budget out there. And if not, well, there's always the library.
2 comments:
Your blog is turning into YA book review central, and I love it! Now I know where to check to find out which books rock, and so forth. :) I, too, hate it when authors are too chicken to kill off major players. Would we love Shakespearean tragedies so much if there were no tragedies? I mean, seriously. Have the guts to maim the ones you love! Yes, that's morbid... Oh, well. :) I don't foresee any of the characters in my YA fashion story dying, but you never know! Someone could contract that nasty leg paralysis from tight skinny jeans. ^_^
LOL yes, that would be awesome. Can you have a character who wears jeans so tight and is so rich that they pay someone to sew their jeans onto their body, so they will be excruciatingly tight? That would make me so happy!
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