Meh. This is the last of the Morganville Vampires trilogy, in which super-bright 16 year-old Claire Danvers moves to Morganville, Texas to go to Texas Prairie University because her parents think she is too young to head off to MIT (having read all of the books now, I think this is stressed so that you don't doubt her intelligence - which you will).

Morganville is a town owned by a vampire dynasty, headed by Amelie. Amelie is old, cold and strangely interested in Claire. Book Three tells us why. Claire is now protected by Amelie, which gives her a new status in Morganville, and suddenly everyone wants to be her friend. She still lives in the Glass House with rough and ready Shane (her platonic boyfriend), Michael the hippy vampire who doesn't want to hurt people, and Eve the cartoon goth whose brother seems to be Michael Myers.

Book Three crams a lot in, and centres on the reason why Amelie has chosen Claire as one of her protected. Like the rest of the trilogy, it's very readable, but the relationship between Claire and Shane just isn't working for me. It doesn't seem real. We have an 18 year old boy and a 16 year old girl living in the same house without parents, hormones presumably flying everywhere, but they remain strangely virtuous. There was some clumsy moralising in Book Two right enough - when Claire had a drink at a party she was roofied, so she doesn't do that anymore. Blah blah. But this could just be my cynical side coming out.

So anyway, welcome. The door will close behind you.