Fade Out (Morganville Vampires, #7)

by Rachel Caine

Withoutthe evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville,the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again…

Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the localtheatrecompany. But when one of Eve’s castmates goes missingafter starting work on a shortdocumentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realize that this film project, whose subjectis the vampires themselves, is a wholelot bigger—andway more dangerous—than anyone suspected.

• ISBN10: 0606151079
• ISBN13: 9780606151078
• Publish Date: 3 November 2009
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 6 April 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Demco Media Inc
• Edition: Bound for Schools & Libraries ed.
• Format: Hardcover (Library Binding)
• Pages: 239
• Language: English

Reviews

[Angie]

10/17/15: Rereading!!!

In this seventh installment, things are looking up for our friends in Morganville. Bishop's gone. Michael's got a major gig and the possibility of a record deal. Eve's been cast in the town play and picked up a new friend, Kim. Shane's finally got himself a job and no one has put him in the hospital recently. And Claire...well, she's got an awful sunburn and is being used as a pawn in another game of power.

After the nicely wrapped up ending of Carpe Corpus I was curious where the series would go. With Bishop no longer around to take over, it's the resident vampires who try to claim control. They see Amelie as weak, and want to take Morganville from her. If that happens, it'll no longer be a town where vampires and humans live in relative harmony. Of course Claire can't let that happen!

My favorite thing about these books are that they're short. Not that I don't always want more, but there's nothing superfluous that slows down the story. It makes it super easy to get lost in the book and there's always something happening to Claire and Co. However, this is also makes it obvious that any new character must be up to something, as is the case for Kim. Of course I was suspicious of her from the very beginning, but I was shocked to find out what she was really doing in Morganville.

This is probably my favorite of the books so far. It's not the most action packed, but it had plenty to keep me entertained. There's more Mrynin, which is always awesome. Plus there's more Ada, and she has seriously lost her mind! After that ending I cannot wait to get my hands on Kiss of Death. Things are certainly changing in Morganville!

Read more of my reviews at Pinkindle Reads & Reviews.

[nitzan_schwarz]

Before reading this book, I completely forgot what this series does to me. Mainly; smiling and grinning like crazy, biting my nails, laughing out loud, and cursing. Those are all excellent things. It took exactly 14 pages for me to remember that vividly again.


Fade Out, just like the rest of the Morganville series, is a fun, action-packed, sweet, hilarious book. It didn't take me more than three hours to read it; the pages just flew by. There is not a dull moment and something is always happening... even when you think it doesn't!

If you're just learning of the Morganville vampires, the story follows Claire, a 17 years old genius who finds herself going to college early in a city called Morganville. Oh, and of course she has to fight vampires, befriend vampires and generally save the entire city from vampires and the occasional (or rather frequent) wacko on the way. No big deal...

To read the rest of the review, go to my blog here

[violetpeanut]

Another quick and enjoyable entry in the series. Not "great literature" but fun and good for a little escapism.

The main plot didn't really start until a little more than half way through. Not a whole lot happens in the first half but the characters save it from becoming boring. I'm a big fan of Myrnin.

[Linda]

I just LOVE Claire! She's excellent, so smart and fearless, and she can do it on her own, but still likes to be able to do it with her friends' help. and I think that Claire and Shane are just excellent together!
I am so happy to read books with strong, intelligent female heroines! And even more when thes strong females still know that they are better off when they have friends!

[Jo]

I can’t believe the genius that is Rachel Caine. How it is possible to have so many unique storylines for the same series that will always hook you in, leave you guessing right to the very last page, and never get old, or disappoint in any way, is beyond me. Rachel Caine is simply amazing, and with Fade Out, she’s done it again!

So, with Carpe Corpus, the sixth book in the series, we had the end of the six book long story arc. Knowing how awesome Rachel Caine is, I knew Fade Out would be good, but I had absolutely no idea where she could possibly take the characters of Morganville now. Amelie had given humans equality with vampires, Bishop was dead, everything is just dandy now, surely? What else could possibly happen? Well, I’ve already said Rachel is a genius. I would say Fade Out is the first book of the Morganville Vampires series 2. There is more that can happen, and it’s going to span over more books!

As I said, it feels like two separate series to me, but there is enough of a connection between Carpe Corpus and Fade Out that it’s pretty seamless. It annoys me, but I am unable to talk about this connection – which is not all the characters we’ve come to love and hate, who still show up in Fade Out - without spoiling the story, so you’re just going to have to take my word for it.

Fade Out has the all the action we except from a Morganville Vampire novel, but most of it doesn’t come along until much later in the book. There are a few incidents here and there in the first half, which are big in their own way, but they don’t result in the rollercoaster of action, fighting, fear and danger we’re used to. But this was actually really nice; Claire and her housemates have been through so much in the last six books, it was great to see them going about their lives in a completely normal way – well, as normal as you can get for Morganville. Claire is studying, Eve is acting, Shane is working, and Michael is strumming – all is relatively good. Then Kim shows up, and disrupts Claire’s normalcy, but as a bit of an annoyance, lower than Monica in the list of problems in the grand scheme of things. It was great to have things going well.

But, of course, this is Morganville; the air is never going to smell of daisies forever. Some new characters turn up with less than peace on their mind, Amelie is grieving over Sam’s death, and Kim becomes more than just a minor annoyance. And then everything starts kicking off, and we have our rollercoaster of action, fighting, fear and danger that I mentioned before. I could see how many pages were left in the book, I knew there was going to be more books after this one, but I literally could not see a way out of the situation Claire finds herself in, and I was preparing myself for the worst.

This story is resolved, there is an end. I would say it is possible to read Fade Out as a standalone novel after the first six, but there are a few things in Fade Out that lead you to make guesses about where “series two” will take you. If my inklings are correct, and Rachel’s genius is anything to go by, we’re in for some amazing Morganville goings on! I SO cannot wait for Kiss of Death, the next instalment!

You must know by now how much I adore Myrnin, so I will end this review with something from him.

‘It’s only a hunting spider,’ he said. ‘It won’t hurt you.’
‘So not the point!’
‘Oh, pish. It’s just another living creature,’ Myrnin said, and put his hand out. The spider waved it’s front legs uncertainly, then carefully stepped up to his pale fingers. ‘Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly.’ He lightly stroked the furry back of the thing, and Claire nearly passed out. ‘I think I’ll call him Bob. Bob the spider.’
(Fade Out by Rachel Caine, p23)

The dude is awesome, right?