The Dead Girls' Dance

Morganville Vampires, Book 2

By: Rachel Caine

Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Claire Danvers has her share of challenges---like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm, and above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with vampires.

On the up side, she has a great roommate (who tends to disappear at sunup) and a new boyfriend named Shane, whose vampire-hunting dad has called in backup: cycle punks who like the idea of killing just about anything. Now a fraternity is throwing its annual Dead Girls' Dance and---surprise!---Claire and her equally outcast best friend, Eve, have been invited. When they find out why, all hell is going to break loose. Because this time both the living and the dead are coming out---and everybody's hungry for blood.

Bite into another Morganville Vampires novel.

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entertaining chiller!

I enjoyed the book series but absolutely love the audio version! The narration makes it so much more entertaining! Better than Twilight!

❤️ 😍

beautiful story love this series re reading after reading when I was younger never gets old...

Love

loved this book!!! Love this series!! I have read them multiple times, now I get to listen to them! its great

Fantastic, honestly!

I love these novels and have read them several times. It took a minute to get Yusuf to Cynthia Holloway’s reading but I liked it. She did good ^_^

Not for Kids, but for Teens 17 ond over

A riveting book but you want to read/listen to book 1 first

The Dead Girl's Dance; Book 2.

Book 2 is about revenge, back stories, and transitions.

We learn about Shane's tragic losses (his sister and Mom). His Dad wants revenge for their deaths and gets Shane arrested. His Dad teams up with Oliver to start killing vampires. The first kill is the evil Brandon. This starts a power struggle between Emily and Oliver.

Oliver, the power-hungry vampire, is the reason Michael turned into a ghost because of his failed attempt to turn Michael into a vampire.

Because of the failed attempt to change Michael, his life is tied to the Glass house. Not being able to help his friends when they need him, Michael asks Emily, the founder and oldest vampire, to turn him into a vampire so he can leave the house when he needs to.

We also learn that the youngest vampire, Sam, is Michael's grandfather and he seems to be in love with Emily.

Eve's murderous brother is released from prison. But, that's all we really know about him.

In the end, young 16-year old Claire is faced with her own life-changing decision. What will she do?

Read the book, narrator sucks

Great story, I listened to the first one and then bought the second one so it can't be that bad. However, it took awhile to ignore the narrator. She sounds pissed off meets valley girl while impersonating William Shatner. Cynthia Holloway reads the book in an annoying cadence that once you get passed it the book is awesome.

keeps you wanting more

I am not a teen but decided to give i a try and now cant stop mustt finish the series!

suspense

Love a series that holds my attention and ends a story in such a way that keeps me curious for the next book.

Not as good as Vampire Academy

What did you love best about The Dead Girls' Dance?
I liked that the story line. I also like it that the author used the same narrator for all of her series. It's basically a pg rated – tween version of Vampire Academy. I like it that the story line really changes between books. The “love Interest” quandry is between a 16 year old college freshman and her 18 year old male roommate. So, they are determined not to go past 2nd base. No blood and gore in this series. It really doesn't get into how they get their blood (other than the unmentioned college kids disappearing). We find a new main character and this book sets up well for book 3. I never reached a point where, “I couldn't put it down.” Nor were there any places I bookmarked, like I did in the Vampire Academy. The character descriptions didn't really give me a good mind's eye as to what the characters looked like other than general descriptions ie “blonde and blue eyes- I couldn't take my eyes off of him.” I had a hard time buying into the characters, this might be done on purpose, since I feel that the audience is tween. I bought book 3 and 4. Book 3 is much better than book 2.

Have you listened to any of Cynthia Holloway’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I like her performance, but her man voice really could be better.