Glass Houses

Claire is almost seventeen. She's incredibly intelligent, so intelligent that she has already graduated from high school and is starting college. Her parents didn't want her to be too far away, though, so she's attending a college in Morganville rather than one of the colleges she really wanted to go to, but which were farther away.

Claire's first problem is the other girls in the dorm. She gets on the wrong side of the leader of one of the cliques and ends up being harassed by the girl's groupies and the girl, a harassment that includes physical attacks that could cost Claire her own life.

She flees the dorm and moves into a house with three others, one of them a goth-type girl. Two boys live in the house also, although one of them seems to be seen only at night.

Then there's also a sort of problem with vampires; the town is actually controlled by vampires. There's even a vampire hierarchy; pledges to certain vampires; a police force that is in cahoots with them, and various others working with the vampires, including Claire's main harasser.

Doing well in classes is sort of hard to do when your very life is in danger almost all the time. Things get complicated when Claire gets her hands on a book that the vampires really, really want, and there's basically a full-scale battle at the house.

There's also Amelie, the most mysterious, and possibly oldest, vampire of all, who basically takes an interest in Claire.

It's an excellent book done by the same author of the outstanding Weather Warden series of books.

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