Stacking the Shelves #18

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tyngs's Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. All the links added here will take you to Goodreads.

Bungle has been good AGAIN this week! I've a feeling that this is because she's building up towards a big  30th birthday book-buying blowout!  That's right, Bungle will be waving goodbye to her twenties this week so I see some partying and some major spoiling in her immediate future! I also have a feeling that the shelves could well be close to collapsing next week! Happy birthday Bungle!

As for me, I was kind of good this week.  I bought two books (although I pre-ordered a few more on-line. Oops.)  The first book I got was Underworld (Abandon #2) by Meg Cabot.  John has taken Pierce down into the underworld, apparently for her own protection. But is that true? Will he let her go when she finds out her loved ones aren't safe? I'm looking forward to finding out!  The second book I bought A Touch of Crimson : A Renegade Angels novel by Sylvia Day.  This one is for older readers and I think it's pretty much got everything from angels to vampires to lycans.  Bring it on I say!

So that's it from us this week!  So tell us, what did you add to your shelves?

Mini Review ~ Black Dawn ~ Rachel Caine



4 stars

Title: Black Dawn
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goodreads says:

In Last Breath, the rain brought a new and dire threat to Morganville and its vampires... their ancient enemies, the draug. Now, the vampires are fighting a losing war, and it will fall to the residents of the Glass House: Michael, Eve, Shane and Claire, to take the fight to an enemy who threatens to destroy the town, forever.

Lovers of Morganville, rejoice: Black Dawn takes the intrigue, romance and nail-biting suspense of the series to its highest level yet!

Opening line: Morganville, Texas, isn't like other towns.

Closing line: Because now there was no going back.

The last few books in the Morganville series have just been getting better and better. Black Dawn picks up where Last Breath leaves off and it is yet again action packed! I thought Black Dawn was brill, gripping and had me constantly questioning what was going to happen.

I like how we are again shown the story through several view points, it's always exciting to learn new things about the characters we have come to love throughout this series. All is forgiven with Shane and he has yet again moved to the top of my list of favourite men! He really shines in this book for me, a real hero! I love him!!

Black Dawn also see some old faces return which is always exciting. And we may just finally hear wedding bells for Michael and Eve. I hope things do actually work out for these two, they have been through enough as have Claire and Shane!

Now I am hoping Morganville changes for the better because I would like to think that the vamps actually realise what Claire and her human friend have done for them. Her and Shane have done more than enough. I hope with the Draug gone that the rebuild of Morganville won't be as bad as Oliver has us believing at the end of Black Dawn.

Overall another exciting roller coaster ride in the crazy town that is Morganville!



 

Review ~ Last Breath ~ Rachel Caine

4 stars

Title: Last Breath
Author: Rachel Caine
Series: Morganville
Published by: Allison & Busby
Date: October 2011

goodreads says:

With her boss preoccupied researching the Founder Houses in Morganville, student Claire Danvers is left to her own devices when she learns that three vampires have vanished without a trace. She soon discovers that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is someone new to town—a mysterious individual named Magnus. After an uneasy encounter with Morganville’s latest resident, Claire is certain Magnus isn’t merely human. But is he a vampire—or something else entirely?


Opening line: Shane's lips felt like velvet against the nape of her neck, and Claire shivered in delight as his breath warmed the skin there.

Closing line: And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.

Last Breath is where things start to really get back on track in Morganville! Bite Club was just a taste of better things to come and with Last Breath Caine seems to be back in the writing comfort zone.

Often we come across a book that is very hard to review because we are worried we will give to much away and spoil the story for others. Last Breath is one of those books! If like me you felt a few books in the middle of this series were there just for the sake of it and you're maybe not yet up-to-date I would say keep reading!!
Caine sure knows how to wake you up to this series again and Last Breath was full of just about everything to be honest! Shock deaths, ghosts, a new breed of villains, ideas of a marriage and thoughts of suicide.

I like again how we see the story through the eyes of others rather than just Claire, it obvious why we need these different view points as readers. It was interesting to see things through Amelie's eyes but I felt in this story she seemed weak! She was ready to run from the Draug, the bad guys, and kill those loyal to her because of what they knew. I much preferred the fighting spirit we have come to know from Amelie. She is not alone though, the vampires are scared, actually scared of the Draug and as they start to go missing one by one plans are set in motion for the vampires to leave Morganville and set up shop elsewhere.

Now we all know about Michael and Eve's relationship and we know they want to marry but one has to question this and wonder will Eve turn Vamp? Because why marry Michael when she will age and die and he will not!? or Will Claire come up with a miracle cure and Micheal becomes human again? Something more must happen with these two, it's just got too! And while we are on relationships it's rather obvious how deep and real the love Claire and Shane share is. I would think they'll get married and Claire will go off to MIT and they'll all go together, but hey, that's just my thoughts.

I really enjoyed Last Breath and picked up Black Dawn right after finishing as I needed to know what happened because Caine leaves Last Breath on a bit of a cliffhanger. As I said earlier, if you were getting a little fed up of this series carry on with it, you won't be disappointed in the end!