Fall of Night (Morganville Vampires #14) – Rachel Caine

Blurb:

Thanks to its unique combination of human and vampire residents, Morganville, Texas, is a small college town with big-time problems. When student Claire Danvers gets the chance to experience life on the outside, she takes it. But Morganville isn’t the only town with vampire trouble…

Claire never thought she’d leave Morganville, but when she gets accepted into the graduate program at MIT, she can’t pass up the opportunity. Saying good-bye to her friends is bittersweet, especially since things are still raw and unsettled between Claire and her boyfriend, Shane. 

Her new life at MIT is scary and exciting, but Morganville is never really far from Claire’s mind. Enrolled in a special advanced study program with Professor Irene Anderson, a former Morganville native, Claire is able to work on her machine, which is designed to cancel the mental abilities of vampires. 

But when she begins testing her machine on live subjects, things quickly spiral out of control, and Claire starts to wonder whether leaving Morganville was the last mistake she’ll ever make…

I have previously reviewed the Morganville series and also a previous release. Read them here and here. I love this series and ave often worried, before starting a new book, that Caine will be unable to maintain her momentum after so many books. Then I read the new release and my worries dissolve.

I have absolutely no idea how Caine is able to keep readers guessing and wanting more after such a long series, but that is exactly what she does.

When I started reading and realised that Claire was leaving, I wondered how the story would arc to get her back home where she belongs in what I see as quite a short book (in comparison to some I have read) but as usual, it is done with finesse and flair and just enough action to make my heart leap into my mouth more than once.

The only thing I can’t work out is how the series will be rounded up in the one remaining book of the series.