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House Rules

House Rules is the latest in the Chicagoland Vampire series by author Chloe Neill.  Things are changing for new vampire Merit and her house, Cadogan.  On the verge of officially becoming rogue vampires themselves, 2 very well liked vampires mysteriously disappear and the evidence doesn’t point to a pretty picture.  The GP is heading to town to separate Cadogan from the house system, and Merit is about to join a secret organization in the interest of protecting her fellow vampires.

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Biting Cold

Biting Cold is the latest book in her Chicagoland Vampires series. It finds our heroine Merit continuing her battles from the previous book Drink DeepThis time she’s on the road, taking her duties out across the midwest tracking them down before they can do further harm.  Back in Chicago though things between humans and supernatural beings aren’t getting any better and they’re about to get worse. This review, like all our reviews are spoiler free.

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Drink Deep

Drink Deep is the latest installment in author Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series. In this volume vampire Merit is not having the time of her life (after death). She’s still mourning a loss, but finds it hard to do with a receiver observing and changing the rules of her house, Cadogan House, a shake-up among the ranks, a new partner, a stressed out best friend who’s unavailable, a new vampire hating mayor, a mercenary out for genocide, and all of this is before Lake Michigan unexplainably turns black. Merit must find the cause of this while dealing with both personal and political traumas.

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Hard Bitten

Hard Bitten is the 4th book in author Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series.  This outing finds protagonist and recent vampire Merit in a bad spot.  Since the events at the end of Twice Bitten, things are a mess, literally and figuratively.  Humans are now more fearful of vampires and are protesting outside her house, Cadogan House.  She’s also having trouble doing her job with her master, Ethan, constantly trying to woo her back.  All of these are minor distractions though once Chicago’s mayor calls a meeting with the two and tells them about a case the police have come upon where a man is insisting he saw vamps killing women at a “rave”.  And if they don’t fix the problem fast he’s got an arrest warrant with Ethan’s name on it.

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Twice Bitten

Twice Bitten is the third book in author Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series. This 3rd book picks up right after Friday Night Bites with Merit heading off to a mysterious meeting.  From there the story moves on to find Merit requested to serve as security for a meeting of shape shifters.  Of course this doesn’t go so smoothly and Merit and her boss Ethan are soon up to finding and stopping a possible assassination attempt.

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Friday Night Bites

Friday Night Bites is the second book in author Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series (following Some Girls Bite).  This book picks up not long after Some Girls Bite and finds new vampire Merit tasked with her worst nightmare: re-entering the Chicago high society life she shunned and worst of all dealing with her father to find the source of a possible news story that the vampires don’t want coming out.

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Some Girls Bite

Some Girls Bite is the first book of the series Chicagoland Vampires by author Chloe Neill.  The story takes place in a world where vampires have recently made their existence public (like in the Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris, which True Blood is based on).  As the story starts our narrator and main character, Merit, is attacked walking home through her college’s quad.  When she next wakes up she’s told that she’s been turned into a vampire in order to save her life.  Merit now has to deal with this new life that she didn’t want and it’s rituals and laws while fighting to hold onto her old life.  In the middle of all this there’s a vampire killing girls like Merit all over the city and she’s determined to get to the bottom of it.

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