Last Breath by Rachel Caine
Penguin, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-921880-10-0.
(Age: 14+) Last Breath by Rachel Caine is number eleven in the Morganville
series and it is a fantastic
novel.
Unlike most of Rachel Caine's other Morganville novels she writes
this novel from not just Claire's perspective, but Eve's, Michael's,
Shane's and Amelie's also. The thrilling happenings in this novel
push forward a new light in the ever bright Morganville novels.
There are countless turns of events, and so many genres of surprises
that so far this makes it the hardest book to stop reading in my
bookshelf, as it's addictive and beautifully easy to get into. Even
if you haven't read another book in the Morganville series, besides dropping a few hints of past happenings it is so easy to delve
into. Even though it's book eleven, not getting caught in the story
is the least of your worries.
The target audience of this novel are teens to adult, written in a
fast pace with flashes of every emotion on call. The characters in
this novel are easy to relate to. Rachel has given them such
realistic emotions and thoughts that I often pull out of this novel
thinking, 'Hmm, I wonder what mischievous Myrnin is up to, what will
he do next', or in times of thrill, after hours I find myself
wondering what is going to happen to a certain character, feeling
his or her emotions as my own. The plot is fool-proof and has so
many unexpected twists that I believe even the most skeptic readers
will be hooked.
The story centres on Claire Danvers. Claire and her friends all live
together in one of Morganville's founder homes, The Glass House. It
starts with the average happenings in Morganville, average business
etc. But, everyone finds it a tad strange when vampires from all
over town start to go missing, shops start to shut and the cracks in
Amelie's exquisitely controlled armour start to show. It gets worse
when a stranger from a small orbital town appears with nothing but
an envelope directed to the Founder of Morganville, Amelie. Things
start to get out of hand when Claire starts seeing a person that
she's never seen before and after a glimpse, can hardly remember
what she saw. And everything goes downhill when the vamps start to
worry.
Buckle up and enjoy this thrilling tale of events that is
Morganville.
Sarah Filkin, Year 10