My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book was recommended to me by a bookshop girl in Oxford Street, who I need to go back and thank. I could not put this book down – I ate through this in a day.
Glass Houses is yet another YA novel with vampires, but the vampires are scary beasts who you need to hide from, not creatures to have meaningful or co-dependent relationships with. Our Heroine, Claire, is in Morganville to go to college when she is pushed down the stairs of the dorms by the dorm bully who has it in for Claire after Claire made her look stupid. Claire survives, and escapes into a house share in the town, which it turns out is run by vampires. If you’re not under vampire protection in Morganville, it’s open season on your blood. And in this house, no one is under protection. Claire, having made an enemy who has powerful friends, is in big trouble.
I was honestly scared by the book. Okay, I’m a wimp, but I was on the edge of my seat (so to speak) the entire time. Well written, great world building, good characters, and one entirely unbelievable Goth girl (see the Eve diaries at the end for maximum eye-rolling effect) – could’ve researched that part a bit better. But fair enough, the world doesn’t revolve around me and my gothness, and it was delightful to have a heroine that was young, strong and very smart.
Of course this is a series, and I’ve already ordered the next three books.