Black Dawn Review

Black Dawn

Rachel Caine (@rachelcaine)
Bk #12 in Morganville Vampires series
May 1st 2012 by NAL Hardcover
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The hotly-anticipated twelfth instalment in the Morganville Vampires series

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!

Black Dawn is the twelfth book in the Morganville Vampire series, and the momentum has not slowed down. Wow. What an accomplishment for Rachel Caine.  In Black Dawn, the residents are still being plagued by the horrible draug who have infested Morganville.  Many including Michael and Amelie were hurt by the draug in the last book, Last Breath. The draug live in water, even the smallest puddle, and have a way of calling to vampire similar to the sirens of mythology. The vampires can't help but go when they hear the draug calling. When the draug capture the vampires, it usually means the end.  They drain the vampires of all their blood, sometimes slowly, sometimes not so slowly. When the draug have you in their thrall, it's intense.  During a raid to kill the druag, Shane is captured by the druag, and as he is being drained, the draug show him possibilities. Possibilities for Michael, Eve, and Claire. What-could-happen. For Shane, it is all real.

Black Dawn is an intense, rollercoaster ride full of emotional scenes, battle scenes, love scenes, and death scenes. As a reader, you are taken from high to low and high again. You really don't know who is going to survive or die in this book. When the enemy can move through water, even the rain is your enemy. Black Dawn brilliantly holds you in its grip waiting as you read the page as fast as you can.  I am eagerly awaiting Bitter Blood in November.

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In My Mailbox

In my mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren to spotlight the books received for review, swapped, purchased, or checked out from the library!

This was an awesome week at the library for me! Probably because it was an awesome week in the world of YA publishing, right? So many great books came out this last week.

From the library:

Black Dawn by Rachel Caine

(@rachelcaine)

Book #12 - Moganville Vampire series

May 1st 2012 by NAL Hardcover

 Destined by Aprilynne Pike

(@aprilynnepike)

Book #4 - Wings series

May 1st 2012 by HarperCollins

 Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin

(@_bethanygriffin)

Book #1 - Masque of the Red Death series

April 24th 2012 by Harper Collins

  

 Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

(@jkagawa)

Book #1 - Blood of Eden series

 April 24th 2012 by Harlequin Teen

From NetGalley:

Anything but Ordinary by Lara Avery

(@LaraAvery)

September 11th 2012 by Disney/Hyperion

An inspiring, bittersweet love story about making every day count.
Bryce remembers it like it was yesterday. The scent of chlorine. The blinding crack and flash of pain. Blood in the water.

When she wakes up in the hospital, all Bryce can think of is her disastrous Olympic diving trial. But everything is different now. Bryce still feels seventeen, so how can her little sister be seventeen, too? Life went on without her while Bryce lay in a coma for five years. Her best friend and boyfriend have just graduated from college. Her parents barely speak. And everything she once dreamed of doing—winning a gold medal, traveling the world, falling in love—seems beyond her reach.

But Bryce has changed too, in seemingly impossible ways. She knows things she shouldn’t. Things that happened while she was asleep. Things that haven’t even happened yet. During one luminous summer, as she comes to understand that her dreams have changed forever, Bryce learns to see life for what it truly is: extraordinary.

 

Beautiful Lies by Jessica Warman

August 21st 2012 by Walker Childrens

A shocking, ambitious mystery full of twists and turns from the globally embraced author of Between.

Rachel and Alice are an extremely rare kind of identical twins—so identical that even their aunt and uncle, whom they've lived with since their parents passed away, can't tell them apart. But the sisters are connected in a way that goes well beyond their surfaces: when one experiences pain, the other exhibits the exact same signs of distress. So when one twin mysteriously disappears, the other immediately knows something is wrong-especially when she starts experiencing serious physical traumas, despite the fact that nobody has touched her. As the search commences to find her sister, the twin left behind must rely on their intense bond to uncover the truth. But is there anyone around her she can trust, when everyone could be a suspect? And ultimately, can she even trust herself?

Master storyteller Jessica Warman will keep readers guessing when everything they see-and everything they are told-suddenly becomes unreliable in this page-turning literary thriller.

So, that was my IMM.  I think I may actually need a vacation just to be able to read all the great books I have been getting. Really. I'm going to look into that.

What did you get in your mailbox this week?