At the end of the last book, Claire told Amelie that she was
finally taking her up on her offer to leave for MIT and that she wanted her to
allow Shane to leave too if he wanted. When this book starts, Claire is
actually doing it. She’s leaving Morganville in the pre-dawn to go and achieve
her dream.
But Shane isn’t going with her. Claire hasn’t 100% forgiven
him yet for believing that she would cheat on him with Michael, and she really wants
to try and do this on her own. She wants to make sure that their relationship
can survive them being apart.
The best laid plans… Shane follows Claire to Boston, and
watches her just to make sure that she will be all right. The crazy thing is,
Shane isn’t the only stalker that Claire has to deal with. Her roommate – and
BFF from high school – Elizabeth’s ex-boyfriend Derrick has been stalking her
for ages. And that’s just the start of the craziness outside of Morganville.
Claire’s independent study professor – Irene Anderson – is a
former resident of Morganville and Myrinn’s former assistant too. She helps
Claire with her project – the device she was working on in the last book that
can, in theory, take a vampire emotion and neutralize it. A weapon like that
could be dangerous, and as the book goes on it does.
Turns out Irene is one of those anti-vampire residents of
Morganville. In fact, she was the reason that the vampires didn’t find a cure
for their disease quicker. But she isn’t alone. Some organization, called The
Daylight Foundation, has been helping her with her research.
This is another book that drove me absolutely crazy at the
end. It was a great book – Claire outside of Morganville, trying to fit in,
hating her roommate, missing Shane – but then it turned into a total WTF
moment. What exactly is the Daylight Foundation? No answer is really given and
just when you think that it won’t matter, Claire and the gang go back to
Morganville and don’t exactly get welcomed back with open arms.
Final Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. The plot was good. I just
wished that Claire could have been in Boston without so much drama for a little
longer. And what the hell is the Daylight Foundation???
Bookshelf worthy? Electronic or support your local library!
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