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A review by lolawolf
Daylighters by Rachel Caine
3.0
Tidy finish to a messy series. That statement may sound worse than what I actually mean. We will come back to this, let's first start with this book, the final edition to the Morganville vampire series.
The book picks up right where the previous one left off. Our group has been split off and once believed friends are now cohorts of the "evil" Daylighters Foundation, queue evil laughter. The newest baddy is human (ish) and is all peace and love, right? Wrong! He wants to cure the world of vampirism and demolish all traces of what the vampires have built. This seems like a good idea until we realize that some of the most influential human Morganville residents have been coerced, turned into hellhounds and are at the Daylightera command. Michael is going to be "cured" and Shane is a werewolf/hellhound. Eve is being dramatic, Amelie has run away from Morganville and once again Claire is going to save the day with her huge brain and the crazy vampire's help. This storyline felt too similar to the draug for me with self righteous humans being traded in for water vampires. I guess story lines have to get bigger to be worth writing, but I would have preferred a more simplistic story revolving around the interpersonal relationships of our favorite characters. I feel like this books sole pup ores was to end the series tidily. Everyone ends up right where they should by the last period. I ended my read with no wonder about what happens next with these characters. I hate that kind of ending. I love when the author leaves you thirsting for a random tidbit rationed out once every five years. Where even after you have moved on from the genre you occasionally wonder, "what are those crazy characters up to?" I don't have that feeling after finishing this final read. Darn
Now back to my opening statement. From the first chapter of the first book, this bunch was messy and I loved it. My initial feelings as we we're introduced to Clare, Monica, Eve, Shane and Michael were all strong feelings because this was one messy bunch of young people. As the original story unfolded and additional characters were introduced with even a house as a character the tale got messier and messier. Can you say, "feed me more!" The romance, the drama, the attempted murder and actual killing, diseased vampires, water vampires, half ghosts, teleportation, crazy old ladies- more - More - MORE! Vampire hunters, ghost hunters, bikers with attitude, crazy vampire scientists, crazy sisters, crazy dads, crazy dead but live brain girlfriends. MORE! But then we fast forward to the final tale being the one most often told, that of vampire hunter/humans first against vampire (boring) and everything ended very happily ever after. Blah, blah, blah. I prefer my fairy tales Grimm.
The book picks up right where the previous one left off. Our group has been split off and once believed friends are now cohorts of the "evil" Daylighters Foundation, queue evil laughter. The newest baddy is human (ish) and is all peace and love, right? Wrong! He wants to cure the world of vampirism and demolish all traces of what the vampires have built. This seems like a good idea until we realize that some of the most influential human Morganville residents have been coerced, turned into hellhounds and are at the Daylightera command. Michael is going to be "cured" and Shane is a werewolf/hellhound. Eve is being dramatic, Amelie has run away from Morganville and once again Claire is going to save the day with her huge brain and the crazy vampire's help. This storyline felt too similar to the draug for me with self righteous humans being traded in for water vampires. I guess story lines have to get bigger to be worth writing, but I would have preferred a more simplistic story revolving around the interpersonal relationships of our favorite characters. I feel like this books sole pup ores was to end the series tidily. Everyone ends up right where they should by the last period. I ended my read with no wonder about what happens next with these characters. I hate that kind of ending. I love when the author leaves you thirsting for a random tidbit rationed out once every five years. Where even after you have moved on from the genre you occasionally wonder, "what are those crazy characters up to?" I don't have that feeling after finishing this final read. Darn
Now back to my opening statement. From the first chapter of the first book, this bunch was messy and I loved it. My initial feelings as we we're introduced to Clare, Monica, Eve, Shane and Michael were all strong feelings because this was one messy bunch of young people. As the original story unfolded and additional characters were introduced with even a house as a character the tale got messier and messier. Can you say, "feed me more!" The romance, the drama, the attempted murder and actual killing, diseased vampires, water vampires, half ghosts, teleportation, crazy old ladies- more - More - MORE! Vampire hunters, ghost hunters, bikers with attitude, crazy vampire scientists, crazy sisters, crazy dads, crazy dead but live brain girlfriends. MORE! But then we fast forward to the final tale being the one most often told, that of vampire hunter/humans first against vampire (boring) and everything ended very happily ever after. Blah, blah, blah. I prefer my fairy tales Grimm.