The Dance Insight

This is my review on this book. Not the summary. You can always read the summary in the back of the book or what Amazon provides. What I did like about this book is the “Glass House Family”. This group of young people remind me a lot of the TV show “Friends”. Very warm and they look out for each other. If you read the first in the series you may have notice that all the vampires were pretty much the same. Nothing but evil and no personality, but for some strange reason owned a city. In this book I am seeing that more and more vampires are starting to have more levels. Similar to the show “Buffy”. Sam & Amelie are the best vampires so far and I hope she writes more about them in this series. Again, if you read the first book you know who I’m talking about when I say Monica Morrell & The Monickettes. She wrote them to the tee and I actually enjoy reading how they either get there butts handed to them or beat up on poor Claire. The last things I loved about this book is the realatioship between Shane and Clarie which Rachel gives us a great young love atmosphere, but the negative about this relationship is the constant mention and reminder of the age difference between Shane and Claire. Rachel Caine uses the term “jailbait” and Claire is happy being called this. If you read the book “Twilight”, Stephenie Meyer writes the relatioship between the young couple without having the constant reminding of age. Young teenagers do not want age being an issue all the time when they are in love. And last, some of the choices that the characters make, which I will not say to avoid spoiling, are not the choice that I feel they would be so quickly to make. All in all, still a good book. I feel Rachel Caine is forcing herself to be limited when she shouldn’t and she may want to read, if she hasn’t, some really great love/supernatural young adult novels.
Rating: 4 / 5

What was the point of having a teenage girl who does nothing but get rescued be the protagonist of a paranormal novel written in the twenty first century. Her only skill seems to be crying on cue. She won’t stay where she could be safe but injects herself into every dangerous situation available so she can be rescued. The only time that she saves any one at all is when she saves the evil vampires and their human sheep. She does this because of some haft baked moral reason. Claire has no survival instinct at all and other then being a nice girl no redeeming values as a main charactor. If you want to read about a girl being rescued read THE PERILS OF PAULINE at least that story is in a time period that fits.
Rating: 2 / 5