Midnight Alley is as meh as its predecessors, Glass Houses and Dead Girls' Dance. So many things happen, but about 85% of them do not pertain to the story and serve as mindless fluff to pad the book instead. 
 We discover that the vampires are all dying and instead of Claire going "gee, that's too bad. PEACE OUT!" like any rational person would do, she works with new character Myrnin at Amelie's behest to discover a cure. Unfortunately, we barely see any of this. Instead we get a bunch of random scenes that have nothing to do with anything except push some characters to the front to remind us that they're still around. 
 Eve is basically background noise this time and doesn't do much. Shane acts like an asshole, mopes, whines, and gets in fights. Michael is toting the "mysterious vampire doing sketchy things" for no real reason. And for some reason megabitch Monica is constantly pushed on Claire because it seems like Ms. Caine is majorly in love with this idiotic, bland, two-dimensional character. 
 Despite what the characters and the author keep telling us, Claire is a not smart, not brave, and too stupid to live. First, she signed her life over to Amelie to protect her friends, but they don't get any type of protection anyway. Next, Claire's IQ drops dramatically any time she gets within the vicinity of Shane, in which she turns into a rampaging dog in heat. There is so much 'making out' and 'fooling around' between them and she even starts taking her clothes off for him, but because this non-existent sexual tension needs to be drawn out and played to death, Shane won't sleep with her yet. And then he treats her like crap, but she fluffs it off two seconds later. What the hell does she see in him? When it clicks in Claire's cobweb-filled brain that the person who almost killed Sam (that was trying to kill Michael) is the person driving her home, she decides to confront them about it instead of keeping her trap shut, leading her to be kidnapped, AGAIN. She also does other stupid things, like letting Jason threaten and cut her in a room full of people, offers to tutor one of Monica's bitchy friends, and invites a bunch of random people to Monica's party to crash it because she doesn't plan on going and then goes with her friends anyway just because. So much for being a super-genius. Claire reminds me of Sydney Sage from Bloodlines, except at least Sydney was somewhat intelligent (although pompous as hell about it) until she had her standard YA sexual awakening and her IQ plummeted. 
 So Jason is running around murdering girls and nothing is being done. There's a secret group of vampire hunters that apparently Michael was a part of before he died, but Claire doesn't confront him about it. Everything is fluffed off because reasons. And finally, Ma and Pa Danvers move to Morganville for NO REASON, followed by the next supposed Big Bad, and the book ends on another lame cliffhanger. 
 This series needs to get its priorities in order, stat.