Bitter blood - Review

Bitter blood by Rachel Caine

The Morganville vampires book thirteen

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What's it about?

For years, the human and vampire residents of Morganville, Texas, have managed to co-exist in peace. But now that the threat to the vampires has been defeated, the human residents are learning that the gravest danger they face is the enemy within…

Thanks to the eradication of the parasitic creatures known as the draug, the vampires of Morganville have been freed of their usual constraints. With the vampires indulging their every whim, the town’s human population is determined to hold on to their lives by taking up arms. But college student Claire Danvers isn’t about to take sides, considering she has ties to both the humans and the vampires.

To make matters worse, a television show comes to Morganville looking for ghosts, just as vampire and human politics collide. Now, Claire and her friends have to figure out how to keep the peace without ending up on the nightly news… or worse.

Other books in the series
Glass houses - Book one
The dead girls' dance - Book two
Midnight alley - Book three
Feast of fools - Book four
Lord of misrule - Book five
Carpe corpus - Book six
Fade out - Book seven
Kiss of death - Book eight
Ghost town - Book nine
Bite club - Book ten
Last breath - Book eleven
Black dawn - Book twelve - Review
My review

Once again Rachel Caine shows that a series can still be great at book thirteen! Bitter blood was every bit as good as all the previous books in the Morganville vampires series.
In this latest addition we see a new story arc developing and meet some new, interesting characters and the series is still being kept fresh.
I really enjoyed Bitter blood and I liked that Caine is continuing to tell the story from more than one point of view, about 90% of the book is told from Claire but there are parts told by Shane, Michael and - my favourite - Myrnin. It's always great getting in the heads of the other characters and seeing how they're feeling about things that are happening and their part in the story. It was particularly fun getting a glimpse into Myrnin's crazy head!
I'm enjoying where the story is going and looking forward to seeing what's coming next in book fourteen.

My thoughts on the cover
I really like this cover, just like the rest, I'm glad they're keeping up the same theme and the gold colour is really nice.

Favourite quotes

'Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.'

''You make me happy,' she whispered. She meant it literally - he'd just led her out of a strange, dark place and into sunlight, and the relief was so great that she felt tears in her eyes. 'So happy.''

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Nail your books (1)

'Nail your books' is something that Cristina at The princess of storyland started where she shows off her book inspired nails.

I spotted the feature over at Books, biscuits and tea last week and thought I'd give it a go myself, I probably won't post every week, more when the inspiration strikes me lol.

So, today's nails were inspired by the UK covers for the Morganville vampires series by Rachel Caine, particularly Bitter blood, the newest arrival which I just finished reading last night and it was awesome.

Here's the cover;

And here's my nails;

(Click on it to see it bigger.)

How to

• Sally Hansen miracle cure strengthener base coat
• Rimmel 60 seconds Rapid ruby
• Rimmel 60 seconds Black out
• Rimmel Lycra pro Posh trash
• Sally Hansen Insta-dri top coat
• Toothpick

-First I started off by applying a couple of coats of base coat, you got to have base! I used Sally Hansen miracle cure strengthener as I have quite weak nails.

-Next I did a red and black gradient, it's much easier for me to point you to this tutorial than try to explain myself how to do it!

-Once that had dried, I used a toothpick to draw the pattern.

-Then I used an insta-dri top coat which really does dry your nails super quick!

This was the first time I'd tried drawing with a toothpick and my second attempt at doing a gradient so its a bit messy but I'm still really pleased with how it came out, I do have my eye on some nail pens and brushes that I'm hoping to buy in a week or two.
Originally I did want to do more a blood spattered effect but I don't know how to that lol.
What do you think?
And if you give it a go come and let me know.