***THIS IS A SERIES BOOK***
PLEASE DO NOT READ UNTIL AFTER GHOST TOWN!
Overview:
Morganville is a quiet college
town where humans and vampires live in relative peace. But lately a great deal
of blood is being spilt...
Having survived a number of
adventures with her new night-dwelling friends, college student Claire Danvers
has come to realise that for the most part, the undead just want to get on with
their lives.
But someone else wants them to
get ready to rumble.
There’s a new extreme sport
being broadcast over the Internet: bare-knuckle fights pitting captured
vampires against one another – or, worse, against humans. Claire soon discovers
that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in
Morganville. And if they want to survive, they’ll have to do a lot more than
that...
Review:
Bite Club is the tenth book in
The Morganville Vampires’ saga. It is set a while after the events narrated in
Ghost Town and it tells a new story of Claire, Shane, Michael, Eve, Myrnin and
Amelie.
What I’ve always liked about
this series is character development. From the very first book on the author
chose a group of characters and depicted steadily their many aspects,
idiosyncrasies and traits. She has done so using a type of narrative that
although was in the third person, it allowed her through the eyes of her
protagonist (Claire) to introduce to the readers the chief characters of her
story. Bite Club launches a new narrative, i.e. the story is also told from
Shane’s point of view, in the first person. Plot wise it is ideal, because it
enables us to understand few key elements of what this book is all about.
Moreover, it is wonderful to finally have insight on one of the most intriguing
characters so far. Doing it from the fist person point of view also strengthens
the story’s authenticity. Additionally, it highlights Shane’s motivation and
behaviour patterns.
This book has a good pace and of
course a lot of action. The plot is tight and the narrative is linear and
consistent. The dialogues are realistic and the reactions genuine. As we
proceed not only do we learn more about the people in the story, we also
understand better life in Morganville. There is familiarity in the sense that
everyone behaves in the way you expect them to, rather than seeing them doing
something extravagant or downright unexpected. But we never get bored. On the
contrary some old foes return not only to spice things up, but also to conclude
their part in the saga.
Reading this book one cannot but
feel great sympathy for the chief characters and gradually one ends up being
emotionally trapped (always in a good sense) to the many comings-and-goings in
the story. Emotions do run high here on so many levels and most importantly
where Shane is concerned. Fans will certainly delight in that.
Nevertheless, despite the book’s
length I couldn’t help but feel that it was necessary to have a few more pages.
Some parts of the story could have been better developed. A little more detail
wouldn’t have gone amiss and of course it could have wiped out any feeling that
sometimes things just magically resolved. In relation to Shane events needed to
take place in longer periods of time, than the ones given in the book. This way
some of his reactions would have been believable. Finally, it is important to
address the point that it is essential to have read the whole series before
starting with Bite Club. As I mentioned earlier characters from the past
reappear, and they play a big part in the plot, so it might confuse some, if
they haven’t read the past books.
Bite Club is a really good book.
Having been narrated from Shane’s point of view, in the first person, it would
have been ideal. Apart from the traditional introduction, the complimentary
track-list is also available.
Thanks for listening to my opinion!
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