With its eclectic mix of vampire and human citizens, Morganville, Texas, has always been a risky place to call home. But with the invasion of the vampire’s deadliest enemy, Morganville isn’t just in danger—it’s dying…
Ever since the draug—mysterious creatures that prey on vampires—took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil. Most of the town’s residents have evacuated, but Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael have chosen to stay and fight.
Using the city’s water system to spread, the draug have rapidly multiplied. Things in Morganville look grim, especially since vampire Amelie—the town founder—has been infected by the master draug’s bite. Now, if Claire and her friends don’t figure out how to cure Amelie and defeat the draug, it looks like Morganville will become little more than a ghost town…
Black Dawn is one of those books where there’s a lot going on, but not too much happening. If that makes any sense at all. It picks up the very next day with the humans and vampires coming together to form a plan. The draug must be defeated if anyone has any hope of surviving. There’s also the matter of their dying Founder and who will be her successor. Morganville may not be standing for much longer at this rate.
I did like Black Dawn. There’s some exciting stuff going on and I really enjoyed learning more about the draug. However, there are way too many POVs. We get Claire, Shane, Eve, Michael, Hannah, Oliver, and Naomi. The latter three only get one or two chapters each, but it was a lot of head-hopping. I probably wouldn’t have minded so much if it evenly alternated, but as it was, it was just a bunch of haphazard POV switches, and some of them didn’t add too much except for filler.
Black Dawn didn’t leave me with too many thoughts. It was a good sequel, but certainly not a favorite. It was kind of messy and unfocused in places. The ending does leave us with a minor sense of dread. Morganville has seen a lot of changes over the past 12 books, but bigger things are coming, and they’re not good. At least for the humans.
