Review: Dead Girls Dance by Rachel Caine

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Title: Dead Girls Dance
Genre: YA, Paranormal.
Pages: 380
Format: Print
Source: Big W
Release Date: 2008
Publisher: Alyson and Busy
Series: Yes
No. in Series: 2


Synopsis

Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favours 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.

My Review: There is so much about this novel to sit here and gawk at, sitting here right now about a month after i finished reading it i am struggling on how to word this review so i wont give spoilers.

Strange Chemistry Asks:

Hey Guys you may or may not have heard about the upcoming YA Imprint from Angry Robot called Strange Chemistry.
Angry robots is an award winning indie fiction company so you just know anything Strange Chemistry have got going is going to be great!
They have already signed two authors,
Kim Curran(website) who is the author of Shift and
Sean Cummings (website) who will be releasing Poltergeeks and let-me-tell-you these novels sound amazing i cant wait to get my hands on to them.

 i am hoping to make this a regular thing every now and then some bloggers get emails from the amazing Amanda who i feel is the master mind (editor) behind Strange Chemistry asking as quirky little questions. 

 

Strange Chemistry Asks:

Who do you think is the strongest female protagonist in YA fiction and why?

The Book Mystress: 

Alright so i can get pretty annoyed with most protags, and usually like the books for one of the other characters.
Today I choose to bring to your attention Claire Danvers from The Morganville Vampires series. (keeping in mind i am only on book four.) Claire is an ultra nerd, a 16 year old who has the brains of i dont know Einstein? like the chicks smarts are just out of this world. Like i said she is 16 and is taking classes that people  would only dream of taking in collage, yes i said collage.
Claire's perants sent their sixteen year old to this super messed up town where in her first week she got pushed down a bunch of stairs and was super hurt so she moves out of the dorm in to this house with these strangerss who are all 18ish and come with a mountain of trouble with them, who would send their 16 year old away to such a place when i was my mother would never make me move to a far away town to go to collage and live with- ok well i did move to a far away town when i was 16 but my mum didnt make me, i left. and it wasnt for collage, infact, i had left school by now, - anyway back to the question.
I think you get alot of smart protags, you know so that isnt anything different but i find the smart protags are usually so smart they are stupid, but no, not Claire, she has common sense with her smarts and i think that makes her a super strong character, there are lot of other elements that lift her up as well like the other Characters  Shane, Michael and Eve. but i will save talk about them for my upcoming reviews. 

so there is my answer,
what do you guys think?
Who is the strongest YA Protag in your eyes?

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Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

Glass Houses by Rachel CainePaperback, 348 pages
Published 2008
by Allison &Busby Limited

Goodreads Synopsis:It's a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad comes out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows - one that will spill out into the bright light of day. Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. The popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks on the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. And Claire really doesn't have the right connections - to the undead who run the town. When Claire heads off campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Hew new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood..

Review


While i was thinking over how to word my review on this novel i stopped by goodreads to see what other readers where saying, most loved it, but it surprised me to see alot of people comparing it to twilight. If you are going to read this book FORGET TWILIGHT. It is an insult to put Rachel in the same category as Stepanie Meyer, problem with that?
I dont care if you like twilight, i dont care if you hate it but you can not think about twilight while reading this series. this series has nothing to do with twilight, give Caine a fair go, Anyway on to my review.




May Contain Minor Spoilers