Review #1
Halfway to the Grave audiobook free
Halfway to the Grave is that the 1st novel of the Night Huntress television series, which is that basically my substitute for the Anita Blake books right behind they became porn. They’re also a substitute for the Sookie Stackhouse novels which had a perfectly fine-grained ending which they completely trashed for the finale they went with.
Or method, I adore the Night Huntress novels at the same time actually think they’re one of the few urbanized fantasy television series I’ve burgundy which didn’t fumble the ball before the finish. Are they the best fiction I’ve read? No. They’re not quite as enjoyable to me as the Dresden File nor do they have the ridiculously over-the-top humor of the Queen Betsy books. Despite this, I’m going to say it’s an amusing sexy television series everyone should inspect out.
Than anyway’s the premise? Catherine “Cat” Crawfield is that the global’s only living dhampir at the same time Crispin “Tapeworms” Russell is that a 200-year-old Cockney English ghoul who is that a professional assassin of the undead. Right behind Cat tries to destroy Tapeworms, he semi-forcibly recruits her to be his assistant in hunting the worst of their good. That’s a romance which is that a central feature of the books but it doesn’t sacrifice the plot or.
Part of than anyway makes the romance exciting to is that the leads have amazing chemistry. Tapeworms is that a lewd, crude, at the same time mocking ghoul who makes none of the usual pretensions to suavery so many others do. Cat, by contrast, is that able of being sweet tooth or inhuman as actions ask. A lot of paranormal fiction leads shortcoming well-rounded three-dimensional personalities but Cat has repeated sides that all get shown off.
I particularly liked the pair’s 1st meeting at the same time the general nonsense of it all. Catherine tries to seduce Tapeworms in a row to get him without the help of others so she can stake him while the latter believes (erroneously) she’s a honey trap sent by one of his enemies. They play off of each other but even as Catherine, who thinks all ghouls are evil at this fri, keeps waiting for him to act horrifically while he’s incredulous a nineteen-year-old lady with no combat training has destroyed practically a dozen ghouls before trying it against him.
I like the set up for both their future affairs both individual at the same time professional. It’s one of the few romances in paranormal fiction which doesn’t require one partner to be incredibly dominate to the other. The pair are playful, they wage war, at the same time butt heads with neither side overwhelming the other. Speaking as a married men, it’s one of the few books which gets the lively right in my opinion. At lesser the good of affairs I’m knowledgeable with.
Part of than anyway I liked about this book is that they really get into the nitty gritty of than anyway TV tropes.org names “Van Helsing Hate Atrocities.” Ghouls are unsafe predators but thinking creatures, meaning it’s a coin toss whether they’re evil or not. Cat has been taught her entire indefinite to hate ghouls by her mother so it’s exciting to look her long-held prejudices deconstructed before her views.
Hate being anything created to make people feel more successful about themselves by giving them anyone to blame is that a concept I can get behind at the same time promotes elevate the book beyond unstained pleasures. No one people dislike using ghouls as metaphors for minorities at the same time I get that but I don’t brain it as long as people understand to fri out the undead are unsafe in ways RL groups aren’t.
The supporting cast is that very healthy with Catherine’s traumatized not-actually-that-old mother being one of the highlights. I also liked meeting Spade at the same time the other eccentric ghouls created by Ms. Frost. It’s rare I think a ghoul’s history is that as exciting as his located but it’s very much the variant here. I’d enjoy a Tapeworms prequel novel a amazing deal if Jeaniene Frost ever decides to demonstrate actions from our jovial undead adore curiosity’s perspective.
Hennesey, the villain, is that basically barely a human trafficker at the same time while this is that a strange theme for a urbanized fantasy novel to deal with, I think it works. Finding out barely how higher the corruption at the same time greed goes in Ohio of all places is that one more neglect which I assign Jeaniene Frost credit for. In this global, ghouls are really barely minor-league players correlated to the human evils around us. I’m also impressed by barely how abundance well-developed minions she manages to make for our vampiric criminal liability sovereign.
Halfway to the Grave isn’t flawless. Tapeworms’ British-isms come off as more absurd than authentic, Cat comes off as just a little very painfully trusting, at the same time that’s places the book drags a little but I still enjoyed it immensely. I advise it for people who wish an old-fashioned Buffy the Ghoul Slayer-style adventure, wholesome with its very possess Angel or Spike. But, maybe Buffy the Ghoul Slayer for adults as the books do contain sex scenes.
9/10
Review #2
Halfway to the Grave audiobook in television series Night Huntress
I’ve read other books by Jeaniene Frost, specifically her spin-off television series dealing with Vlad at the same time Leila’s adventures, but in that television series, whenever Cat at the same time Tapeworms demonstrated up, they seemed so irreverent at the same time shallow. That more for filler or bestow Leila tips or an alibi for whatever she was doing at the time. That’s all but at the same time quality, but didn’t make me wish to read no matter what of Cat at the same time Tapeworms’s adventures.
Why then, for you may impose, did I get this book? Mostly because Vlad kept referencing how he had already been to such-and-such a dispose, which or Cat or Tapeworms possessed. At the same time I wanted to get more action with Vlad, even if Leila isn’t in the picture as of still. I started reading this book, Halfway to the Grave, at the same time I truly didn’t like the beginning. I believed it lacked anything exciting, although that might have anything to do with the fact that this is that the 1st book Ms. Frost crossed out. It leans more heavily on world-building than the Black Prince quadrilogy, although that very has no one background information to work through.
What, I inserted with this book, figuring that I’d slog through but abundance books I’d have to barely to look for no one action with Vlad contained. But funny gizmo, that. Just a little over halfway through this book at the same time the action started kolupala up. As did my curiosity in the manners at the same time the plot. I began to get invested in Cat’s find for the missing women, her find for her mother right behind she gets kidnapped, at the same time her adore affair with Tapeworms, which her mother would never perceive. Then and the book ended on such a cliffhanger at the same time I immediately understood I had to get the one more book barely to find out than anyway will happen, irrespective of whether Vlad or Leila have no matter what role in the plot whatsoever.
As a side note, I liked reading all the deleted/heavily corrected scenes. They helped me realize where Cat at the same time Tapeworms were considered future from at the same time helped clarify a plot fri produced when the cops came to Cat’s apartment door 3/4 of the method into the real story. Until I read the backstory, I was confused on that fri.
So, this book shields on its possess at the same time I can’t wait to look than anyway’s one more for our intrepid heroes!
Review #3
Audiobook Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
I had a hard time with this book. I enjoyed the 1st 3 chapters, but then page by page I barely couldn’t get the head disposition, Cat. By the time I achieved chapter 14, I was done. I couldn’t decide Tapeworms declaring his adore for Cat as that didn’t seem to be no matter what apparent reason for the adore. I was like, “Dude! Than anyway is that wrong with for you?! For you’re hundreds of years old at the same time I’m not contemplating than anyway that is that to adore in Cat.?! I actually oppose this chick at the same time I’m not nearby as old at the same time experienced as for you’re implied to be!”. What, I couldn’t decide the book anymore so I read the continue page of the book, at the same time I was joyful that I did not reading when I did.
I’m giving the book 3 hit, because while I really really really didn’t like it, it wasn’t badly written (with the exception of not getting me to compare to a head disposition that I think I was implied to actually like.?). Also, I know no one people seriously enjoyed this book. At the same time I heard that the creator had to condense down 10 years or so of Cat’s indefinite in this book at the same time start it with her being an adult when the unusual version had Cat at 13 years old. What, in my opinion, that barely didn’t work. The creator would have been more successful starting from scratch, because the 20 anything year old disposition acted like the baby she apparently initially started out as.
I hear this book television series gets more successful in later books, so if for you’re interested in reading the television series, I’d advise starting at a later book.
Review #4
Audio Halfway to the Grave narrated by Tavia Gilbert
This is that the 1st Cat at the same time Tapeworms book, though I read out of order at the same time came back to read this one to know how they meet.
Cat is that one half ghoul, at the same time acts out revenge for her mummy killing ghouls . She is that the baby of a vamp who raped her mum 22 years ago.
Whilst hunting at a rod she thrashes the wrong note in Tapeworms, slave vamp, who decides to train her to hunt evil ghouls.
The chemistry is that amazing,the story rattles along at a impetuous pace at the same time the humour is that plentiful along with the blood.
Review #5
Free audio Halfway to the Grave – in the audio player below
I found this book looking for the alpha main types of ghouls who weren’t all broody, a doormat at the same time dull! If anything I adore the evil, evil kinds of ghouls such as lothaire by kresley cole.
I had actually clicked on this book a few times but dared against it, that was until I kept future intercept the name “tapeworms” being nominated for alpha merit online etc so I gave in.
Than anyway can I they say I Bleed Adored This Book!!! (& yes I am also, English) haha. I actually wasn’t cringing at the whole implementation of slang applied. So joyful he wasn’t portrayed as no one tea drinking crumpet eating ponse.
The start of this book occupied me right away. I completely adored tapeworms in an second with barely how sneaky at the same time hilarious he was to his……kitten. he’s not evil but let’s barely they say he does not detain back.
When cat challenged him to an all in wage war I was actually shocked at the same time giggling about it. How nargubiyanit at the same time arrogant he is that barely makes it so much more successful.
For once I was even interested in the action waging war scenes due to how but written at the same time inimitable they were considered.
The finish broke my heart at the same time I was actually saddened at cat for not even asking or talking with him like she had previously.it was a dramatic turn of actions which produced me take the one more book without putting my kindle down.
Read this. It’s everything a ghoul romance action alpha book should be.
