Daylighters Paperback – January 1, 2014

Daylighters, the final book in the Morganville Vampires series, still keeps the action fresh and constant, and I think that's what I'm going to miss most of all about these books. Even though I believed that things would work out whenever I first picked this book up, it was still a long, twisted ride along the way, just as it's been through the previous fourteen books.Daylighters opens with our vampire friends in grave danger from an organization that has arrived in town to "cure" the vamps. The tables are turned; no longer in control, Amelie and friends are herded up and held in an abandoned mall while they await a procedure that will rob them of their vampire status. Yes, this includes Michael, and no, Eve and Company are NOT HAPPY. While Claire and Shane work to help Eve, they discover that their beloved Glass House is in danger as well; meanwhile, Claire is accused of murder and taken away in handcuffs. Oh, and remember that strange dog bite Shane got in the last book? Yeah, well, it's the mark of the beast so to speak; at the bidding of Fallon (the head of the Daylighters, the group taking over Morganville), Shane goes hellhound and begins attacking vampires. It's a mess, made even worse with Police Chief Hannah Moses on the Daylighters' side, lots of lost clothing, and the fact that the "cure" has a less than 25% success rate.I have grown to love all the characters in this series, with the possible exception of Eve. She's just never grown on me; it's as though she's never made it past the emo girlfriend in high school stage, always charging head first into situations without thinking things through, putting herself and others in harm's way. But even Oliver has grown on me; he at least never varied from his same general demeanor and he knows who he is inside. And Claire? Even Oliver remarks on her not being the mouse she was on the day they met. Truly coming into her own, this girl now knows how to survive, with or without her beloved Shane. I absolutely can buy into their relationship because it's mutual and built on a firm foundation, something I feel is lacking in Eve and Michael's. But it's Myrnin, as per usual, who steals the show. More manic than ever, more calculating and emotional, he rescues Claire and treats her as an equal. His slowly revealed feelings for Jesse bring more depth to him, and yet, when Claire is racing back to the lab, he reminds her to check on his pet spider, Bob. Myrnin is magical, and I suspect most of us adore him the most.Daylighters begins strong and never lets up, even when I couldn't possibly see a way for our heroes to win. All of the major players in the past are back, including the vampires of the town of Blacke. Though at times some of the plot resolutions stretched my imagination to its skeptical limits, I was still enthralled, racing toward an end I really didn't want to see. The final chapter is a bit of a fluff ending, but it's nice and happy and I can live with it. This is a series that goes out on a high note, and I couldn't be a bigger supporter. Highly recommended!

I stumbled across Rachel Caine's Morganville series a year and a half or so ago. I'm way out of her target audience - male, above 50. Of course, as she wrote in a note to me, so is she.I picked up Glass Houses because I had liked Caine's Weather Warden books, an adult-oriented series.Within 60 pages of my trip to Morganville, I fell in love with Claire, her 16-year-old heroine. I read the first five books - the Bishop arc - in a weekend.So here you have not a review of Daylighters, the newly released final book of the series. The book does, however, wrap things up nicely without rushing to an obvious conclusion.If you haven't read the series this far, you're shouldn't be reading this review. (Go back to Glass Houses.) There are semi-spoilers here.So this is more of an essay on our trip through Morganville, the Texas town you never can leave - because it`s run by vampires who won't let you leave.Over the 15 books of the series, we follow Claire, a very smart but very young college girl, from innocence to growing, often courageous feistiness and stubbornness and finally womanhood.On the way, we meet people and ex-people. There are her housemates - the vamp girl, the musician and the strong angry boy who eventually becomes her love interest. (That's horribly, unfairly over-stereotyped.) The four are as good a group of friends a person can ever find. You'll want to move in with them.We meet a lot of vampires, good and bad. We meet an ice queen vampire dictator, and a supervampire. Then there's a mad-but-dangerous-but-fun vampire scientist, along with his brain-in-a-bottle and his pet spider, Bob.We meet a crafty vampire who looks like an ex-hippie, a half ghost, and a ghost. We meet anti-vampire water creatures - in drier-than-dry Texas. Oh, and a sentient house.We find that vampires can go in the sun - some of the time. We find wooden and silver stakes don't kill them, some of the time. We find they can get their blood from a blood bank- as long as humans contribute whether they're willing or not.After about 10 books, I started to think I getting tired of Morganville and started leaving books in my "to read" list. But every time I picked one up, I was stuck reading it straight through.In the end I had read 12 five-star and three four-star books.And I send thanks to Rachel Caine (or Roxanne Campbell, her real name) for a lot of joy.

I have read this series a few times now and have always felt the last two books were a disappointing conclusion still feels the same. Overall though it’s a good series

Not the ended I thought would come. But even better. Im sad this series is finished. Maybe a spin off about Claire and Shane could follow

In one and a half weeks the twists and turns are thrilling the characters are so engaging couldn't put them down jumping from one book to the next what an amazing ride quite exhausted now. HIGHLY RVOMMEND strap in and enjoy a roller coaster of a ride 💖💖💖

Ein toller Abschluss der Morganville Vampire!Wie in allen Teilen gab es Höhen und Tiefen, einen guten Spannungsaufbau und viele Gefühle.Insgesamt will ich gar nicht soviel sagen. Daylighters sowie die gesamte Morganville Reihe sind sehr empfehlenswert.Das einzige was mich ein wenig stoert ist,dass jeder einzelne Charakter soviel schlechtes erlebt hat und durch so viele Abenteuer gegangen ist und am Ende erfahren alle das große Glück. Myrnin findet Jesse, Oliver und Amelie naehern sich an und Shane/Claire Michael/Eve heiraten natürlich. Selbst Miranda ist glücklich und zufrieden und das Glass Haus wird nur noch von Familie Glass/Collins bewohnt.Stoert mich persönlich eben ein bisschen,tut der Story jedoch keinen Abbruch.Ich werde Morganville vermissen!

Je ne trouve pas les mots pour décrire à quel point je suis triste de quitter l'univers de cette fabuleuse et inoubliable série. Ce dernier opus est absolument parfait : rien n'est laissé au hasard, tout est réglé et les héros sont plus touchants et renversants que jamais. Une conclusion épique et dévastatrice qui correspond parfaitement à l'ambiance de la saga. Depuis que j'ai atteint la dernière ligne du roman, je suis en deuil. Je suis tombé profondément amoureux de Claire, Shane, Eve, Michael et tous les autres héros de cette histoire ainsi que de Morganville au fil de ces dernières années et leur faire mes adieux est un véritable crève-cœur. Ce fut un honneur de les rencontrer et je remercie infiniment Rachel Caine d'avoir eu l'audace et le génie d'écrire 15 tomes absolument époustouflants. ♥