Your Stories #7: The Morganville Vampire Series

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RACHEL CAINE'S THE MORGANVILLE VAMPIRE SERIES

CHOSEN BY RACHEL PATRICK

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What compelled you to begin The Morganville Vampire Series?

I believe it was my freshman year of high school, so five or six years ago. I was just getting into reading, thanks to Twilight, and I had a little obsession with vampires. Someone I went to school with had a list of favorite books on their Myspace (yes, it was cool then!) and I saw Glass Houses, the first Morganville Vampires book, on there. I decided to check it out and now I'm in love.

What makes you love this series so much?

This is kind of hard to answer. Why do people love chocolate? Because they do. Because it's delicious and addictive and has so many flavours, from dark to light and everything in-between.

For one, the books have absolutely everything: romance, action, drama, and terror. The feels run the gamut, from a pulsing heart to butterflies devouring my stomach. The story is so cool and, thirteen books in, I'm not ready for it to end. I can re-read it over and over and keep falling in love. Vampires and humans (somewhat) coexisting in a modern day town? SWEET. And the characters: my sweet babies. It may sound weird, but it kind of feels like I know them. I was out and about once and was hit with this sudden picture: Claire, Shane, Michael, and Eve just standing there on the sidewalk, looking so realistic.

Do you have a a favourite quotation from the series?

I don't have a specific quote, but I'll always love words exchanged between Claire and Shane, as well as all the crazy things Myrnin says.

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Rachel Patrick is a somethingteen-year-old who would like a one way ticket to Neverland. Her middle name is Awkward. She's attending college to work towards being a better writer, and she hopes to some day have her name on shelves around the world. She has an obsession with books that some may call unhealthy, but she just calls it life. She can be found posting reviews and other bookish shenanigans on her blog, Beauty and the Bookshelf, obsessively tweeting on Twitter, and tumbling all sorts of things (like Disney!) on Tumblr.