Book #57: The Dead Girls' Dance

Title: The Dead Girls' Dance (Book #2 of The Morganville Vampires series, second book in the first volume omnibus)

Author: Rachel Caine

Date started reading: April 17, 2012
Date finished reading:  April 18, 2012

Publish date: Originally April 2007 (omnibus published November 2009)
ISBN: 978-0451230546
Number of pages: 258 in this book, 480 in full omnibus edition

Official summary: "Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors 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." (http://www.morganvilletexas.com)

How I obtained the book: Received through the Paperback Swap book club. (I had to pay to mail a book to another member in order to receive a credit to request this book)

Memorable quotes:

• "Bones in every family closet on Morganville. Yours rattle pretty loud, Eve. So don't judge me." ~ Shane
• "Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it." ~ Michael to Shane
• "Boys are idiots. You'd think Shane could just say, 'Oh man, I'm glad you're alive,' but no. It's either guilt or amateur night at the Drama Queen Theater. Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy." ~ Eve to Claire
•  "Friends get you killed in Morganville." ~ Shane
  "No. Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive." ~ Eve
• "Texas Prairie University wasn't exactly Harvard on the Plains. ... TPU was like a wildlife park, and the students were the wildlife. And sometimes, the herd got culled." ~ Claire
• "Having too much imagination was sometimes a handicap." ~ Claire
• "I've got a PhD in taking shit from jocks." ~ Eve 
• "Karma's a bitch, and so am I." ~ Eve
• "This house is twenty-five hundred square feet of tomb. I'm not alive. I'm buried alive." ~ Michael
• "Regret is like cancer to us. It rots our will to live." ~ Amelie

My commentary: This one was as great as the first book. It has the perfect mix of horror, teen issues, love, etc. I'm so glad I decided to read this series

Buy on Amazon.com: The Morganville Vampires, Vol. 1 (Glass Houses / The Dead Girls' Dance)