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Rachel Caine (1962–2020)

Author of Glass Houses

164+ Works 44,156 Members 1,601 Reviews 127 Favorited

About the Author

Rachel Caine was born Roxanne Conrad in White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. She received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Texas Tech University. Before becoming a full time author in 2010, she worked in corporate communications. She has written more than 40 novels including show more the Morganville Vampires series, the Weather Warden series, the Outcast Season series, the Great Library series, Prince of Shadows, and the Revivalist series. She has written under the names Julie Fortune, Roxanne Longstreet and Roxanne Conrad. She received a Paranormal Pearl Award, an RT Booklovers Award, and a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Rachel Caine

Glass Houses (2006) 3,205 copies
Ill Wind (2003) 2,474 copies
The Dead Girls' Dance (2007) 2,173 copies
Ink and Bone (2015) 1,972 copies
Midnight Alley (2007) 1,969 copies
Feast of Fools (2008) 1,760 copies
Heat Stroke (2004) 1,727 copies
Lord of Misrule (2009) 1,600 copies
Chill Factor (2005) 1,505 copies
Carpe Corpus (2009) 1,490 copies
Windfall (2005) 1,401 copies
Fade Out (2009) 1,322 copies
Firestorm (2006) 1,240 copies
Kiss of Death (2010) 1,169 copies
Ghost Town (2010) 1,104 copies
Thin Air (2007) 1,029 copies
Stillhouse Lake (2017) 1,012 copies
Bite Club (2011) 884 copies
Paper and Fire (2016) 856 copies
Gale Force (2008) 842 copies
Undone (2009) 710 copies
Last Breath (2011) 709 copies
Cape Storm (2009) 638 copies
Black Dawn (2012) 623 copies
Ash and Quill (2017) 562 copies
Bitter Blood (2012) 506 copies
Working Stiff (2011) 503 copies
Total Eclipse (2010) 483 copies
Daylighters (2013) 475 copies
Fall of Night (2013) 463 copies
Unknown (2010) 416 copies
Killman Creek (2017) 414 copies
Carniepunk (2013) 396 copies
Smoke and Iron (2018) 394 copies
Honor Among Thieves (2018) 362 copies
Devil's Bargain (2005) 307 copies
Unseen (2011) 297 copies
Sword and Pen (2019) 283 copies
Chicks Kick Butt (Anthology 13-in-1) (2011) — Editor — 275 copies
Prince of Shadows (2014) 262 copies
Devil's Due (2006) 249 copies
Two Weeks Notice (2012) 243 copies
Wolfhunter River (2019) 231 copies
Unbroken (2012) 190 copies
Bitter Falls (2020) 186 copies
Terminated (2013) 155 copies
Sacrifice Moon (2004) 121 copies
Honor Bound (2019) — Author — 110 copies
Heartbreak Bay (2021) 107 copies
Honor Lost (2020) 56 copies
Line of Sight (2007) 52 copies
All Hallows 45 copies
Anger Management 34 copies
Amelie's Story 31 copies
The Undead (1993) 31 copies
Dark Rides 29 copies
Eve's Diary 28 copies
No Love Lost 28 copies
Myrnin's Tale 26 copies
Lunch Date 26 copies
Oasis 26 copies
Sam's Story 25 copies
Cold Kiss (1688) 25 copies
Trapper Road (2022) 24 copies
Exile, Texas (2003) 23 copies
Claimed 22 copies
Stormcrow 16 copies
Copper Moon (1997) 14 copies
Rachel Caine 12 copies
Ladies' Night 11 copies
Duty 11 copies
Black Corner 10 copies
Cold Moon 9 copies
Bridge of Shadows (1998) 9 copies
Dead Air: The Complete Season 1 (2018) — Author — 8 copies
Red Angel (1732) 6 copies
Red Hot Rain 6 copies
Slow Burn (1996) 5 copies
Identity 4 copies
Embers 4 copies
Godfellas 4 copies
Faith Like Wine 4 copies
Witchgrave 4 copies
Vexed 3 copies
Marion, Missing (2016) 3 copies
Claire's Blog 3 copies
Shane's Blog 3 copies
Eve's Blog 3 copies
The Morganville Vampires, Books 1-6 (1990) — Author — 2 copies
Carniepunk: The Cold Girl (2014) 2 copies
New Blood 2 copies
Fade Cut 1 copy
Running Wild 1 copy
Shiny 1 copy
Cold Kiss (2022) 1 copy
Blue Crush 1 copy
Texas Bound 1 copy
Minute Maids 1 copy
Dogsbody 1 copy

Associated Works

My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (2006) — Contributor — 1,455 copies
Many Bloody Returns (2007) — Contributor — 1,365 copies
Strange Brew (2009) — Contributor — 1,056 copies
My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon (2007) — Contributor — 770 copies
Dark and Stormy Knights (2010) — Contributor — 626 copies
Immortal: Love Stories With Bite (2008) — Contributor — 432 copies
The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire (2009) — Contributor — 415 copies
The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance (2009) — Contributor — 410 copies
Hex Appeal (2012) — Contributor — 380 copies
Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions (2011) — Contributor — 332 copies
Shards and Ashes (1600) — Contributor — 244 copies
Dracula in London (2001) — Contributor — 160 copies
Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery (2019) — Contributor — 158 copies
Kicking It: All-New Tales of Murder, Magic, and Manolos (2013) — Contributor — 156 copies
Vampires: The Recent Undead (2011) — Contributor — 127 copies
The Gods of HP Lovecraft (2015) — Contributor — 118 copies
Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives (2011) — Contributor — 113 copies
Unfettered II: New Tales by Masters of Fantasy (2016) — Contributor — 109 copies
The Time of the Vampires (1996) — Contributor — 104 copies
Dark Duets: All-New Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy (2014) — Contributor — 96 copies
Unbound (2015) — Contributor — 95 copies
Farscape Forever!: Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets (2005) — Contributor — 94 copies
Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite (2010) — Contributor — 94 copies
Women of the Night (16-in-1) (2007) — Contributor — 93 copies
Aliens: Bug Hunt (2017) — Contributor; Editor, some editions — 79 copies
Scary Out There (2016) — Contributor — 41 copies
Vampires in Love: Stories with a Bite (2010) — Contributor — 29 copies
Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and SD-6 (2005) — Contributor — 27 copies
The Truth Is Out There (2016) — Contributor — 25 copies
Hardboiled Horror (2017) — Contributor — 13 copies
Out of Tune - Book II (2016) — Contributor — 11 copies
Darker Edge of Desire: Gothic Tales of Romance (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies
Stamps, Vamps & Tramps (2014) — Contributor — 6 copies
Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Anthology (2015) — Author — 2 copies
RoC Sampler: A Taste of the Future (2003) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Short story about cursed immortal sailors in Name that Book (January 2016)
Rachel Caine's Weather Warden Series in Urban Fantasy (May 2012)

Reviews

Can’t really give a summary, as I skimmed this book. Something about the Library of Alexandria, I think. And automata (is the plural not automatons?). Shouldn’t have bothered reading it at all. I vaguely recall not being excited about the first book, so I had to check my review. Sounds like I didn’t like the story (may not have followed that story, either), but apparently I liked the characters so decided to try the next one. Shouldn’t have bothered. Nothing interested me in this.
 
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LibraryCin | 52 other reviews | Nov 27, 2023 |
This had such high ratings and the premise is so awesome, I almost feel bad for giving it such a low star rating. Almost. I couldn't even finish the book or get much past the first 40 pages.

The characters were flat. The descriptions were sketchy enough that the reader has a hard time understanding what is being described. Items that are not in our own existence are just suddenly there, not discussed, and moved on from as if we know it's history, meaning, and function. And at times, the writing was terrible. The last few examples that made me give up:

"Dinner that night was unusually calm and festive."
(I can guess what the author is attempting here, but it falls flat.)

"Couldn't read his expression."
(This is not a sentence, which would be fine if this were the tone of the entire book, but it's not. It's just a random non-sentence.)


I just couldn't see myself continuing.
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MahanaU | 122 other reviews | Nov 21, 2023 |
I read this book a while ago and enjoyed it. I'd read others in this series and by this author.

This is a supernatural romance with a Djinn, but there's more than just romance. Joanne Baldwin is a weather warden and while mudanes have no idea about the supernatural goings-on in their world--she does.

This is also the book where her Djinn lover proposes marriage and apparently not everyone is happy about this.
 
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jezebellydancer | 15 other reviews | Nov 5, 2023 |
Trigger warnings: Military violence, blood depiction, fire

7/10, looking back at this book it still holds up really well ever since I first read it and I might read this again in the future and I can't wait to read the next 4 books in the series but I highly doubt that my library would get them considering that this book is 8 years old now. It begins in a strange world and there's a little prologue before suddenly I go to the main story which is about Jess Brightwell running a bookstore which sells special books called blanks which is like a blank book and through that you can borrow other books but you can't own books; I wondered how does the world still rely on trains and steam and not planes and phones even if it's set in the 2030s, I don't really know. Anyways Jess is invited into a school in the Great Library of Alexandria and somehow it still stands to this day in that book because a fire never burned it down and he meets some friends and learns about things but little does he know that the school is hiding a sinister secret. Everything looks normal until when he sees people burning books to protest and I don't know why but maybe it's a statement against the Library's control and he eventually realises that the Library controls all the books and he starts a revolt with his friends; it all ends in a massive battle and a very exciting ending which left me wanting for more from the series.… (more)
 
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Law_Books600 | 122 other reviews | Nov 3, 2023 |

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