Book Review: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel by Jeaniene Frost

Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I have read about a couple books of the Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost-One Grave at a Time and Up from the Grave-and had fallen in love with Cat and Bones as a couple. But reading book one and seeing how they met and how they fell in love, along with finding their first vampire together was a really good experience, in my case. I loved every bit of the action and how Cat and Bones worked perfectly together, and the ending kinda made me mad, but let me explain.

Halfway to the Grave is about a half-vampire, half human girl named Catherine “Cat” Crawfield, and she’s been hunting vampires for a while until she meets the beautiful but sexy Crispin Bones. Thinking he’s one of the vampires that she was looking for, she tricks him like she does most of her victims, and then winds up on the other side, when she wakes up and is caught by Bones instead, who thought that she was one of another vampire’s men, and thus the whole enemies to lovers trope happens between the two.

Bones trains Cat after hearing her story from her about how she was made, which is why she was hunting down all these vampires-because her mother got raped by one and she wants to find out who he is-and also because her mother really hates vampires and doesn't want her to go down an “evil” road and be a vampire. But all vampires can’t be bad, right? Especially when they are so good lookin’, sexy as hell, and can kick ass and take names? Right?

Well before long, Cat and Bones fall in love, and they team up to find a vampire named Hennessy, a vampire that is very vicious and evil at the same time. Well shit doesn't hit the fa until Cat’s grandparents are killed and her mother is kidnapped, and she and Bones goes and find Hennessey and kills him, but not before her mother finds out that she’s dating Bones and pretty much thinks that Bones had her in his “thrall” and was leading her down a path of evil, which is such bullshit.

Then she’s approached by Don from a Paranormal Unit, and was pretty much offered a job there in the hospital after she took out a bunch of vampires, including Hennessey, and also the governor (that part shocked the hell out of me, though). Basically, after breaking Don’s kneecap and scaring the shit out of Tate, she agrees on taking the job and protecting her mother, and even makes a few demands to make sure that she’s taking this job. In the end, she broke up with Bones (which pissed me off) in a note and just left him...like that. That made me so mad.

But in the end, I really did enjoy this and I’m glad that I picked this book up and read it, because now I have a new book boyfriend and a series I really want to complete reading.

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Up from the Grave, A Night Huntress Novel by Jeaniene Frost

Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Holy crap this book...things happened in this book that makes me go wow each time...even though it was terrible that the ass that did what he did died, the ending was kinda sweet and adorable and I loved it.

Everything was hunky-dory in Cat and Bones land. It was cooler than the other side of the pillow. But sadly, everything changed that when her uncle Don tried to talk to Cat about Madigan, but he would't reveal the secret. So they went to visit Tyler the Medium again to contact Don and get him to spill his secret on Madigan. Don didn't talk, so they decided to go to New Orleans to visit the voodoo queen herself, Marie Laveau. Marie summoned Don and held him down with the Remmants, and finally Don told him what Madigan was planning to do: create a perfect weapon-of vampire and ghoul, just like Cat. That's why he wanted Cat so much-to possibly force her to breed a child that was just like her or use her blood. So she came up with a plan to stop Madigan for even doing that, along with saving her

But..but it didn't mention the fact that BONES FAKED HIS DEATH LIKE A MOFO and then Cat getting caught and being brought in like a test subject, but it did. It hurt so much to read what they did to her, but I’m glad that she escaped with Tate and Juan and Cooper...but also with Madigan (which I hated most of all) but at least he turned into a stupid-ass ghoul and didn’t remember much, just bits and pieces of his small life before he killed himself...

But the kicker was when they found out that Cat-and Tate-had a daughter. A DAUGHTER, mind you, named Katie. And Katie dosen’t know how to communicate properly, and also they found the backer. And the backer for this sick and twisted experiment was a demon named Trove, who wanted to ignite the war between vampires and ghouls, starting with the death of Katie.

That wasn’t about to happen, so Cat, Bones, and Trove got into a fight, and Bones drank some of Trove’s blood, which got him high as a kite and Cat killed him with the demon bone knife. Then they excuted (by they I mean the Leauge Guardians, Mencheres, Marie and a couple others) killed Katie, but instead they killed Denise. I thought that we’ll never see Denise again before she came back to life.

So in the end, Cat, Bones, and Katie left the states and that was the end of the book...which killed me because now I’m goin’ “what am I gonna read now?” (even though when you read this, I’m already reading something else).

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One Grave at a Time: A Night Huntress novel by Jeaniene Frost

One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book almost broke me...almost broke me. But it also excited me, because it's about a very old ghost who wrote the Malleus Maleficarium (not the title of a Supernatural episode) a long time ago, and Cat and her husband, Bones, have to stop a ghost before it can do harm to any other woman when Halloween, or Samhain, comes around.

Cat and Bones also have to deal with Madigan, a man with so many secrets that even Cat's dead uncle Don couldn't get close to him. And each time they tried to get close to Heinrich Kramer, he always disappears. He also went after three women-Francine, Sarah, and Lisa-though it turned out the Sarah worked for Kramer and tried to kill Helsing, but that didn't work at all once they found out that Kramer was after Cat now.

They tried to trap him twice, but Madigan interrupted once and they got him again with tasers the second time so now Kramer is bye bye and everything is good...for now.

It was good to meet Spade, Diana and Ian, though I found Ian funny and a bit of a prick and I'm glad I met them and I love Cat and Bones together they are so good together.

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