Halfway to the Grave: The Night Huntress
Series
By
Jeaniene Frost
I’ve
been on an Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance kick lately. This first book in
The Night Huntress Series by Jeaniene Frost is more the former but there is a
heavy dose of romance to it as well. One
description I heard said that if you could take the romance out and the story
line still survived intact then it’s an Urban Fantasy. I’d say you could do
that here but it wouldn’t be nearly as much fun.
Cat
was going out to kill vampires, just a regular Friday night for her. (Most
people don’t believe vampires exist in
this world.) Then a vampire named Bones captures her. When she comes to, she
expects him to kill her but he wants information. He is quite convinced that she
is human and must be working for a vampire to take out rivals. Once he cottons to the fact that she is half
vampire, he decides he’s going to train her and offers her a partnership. The other
choice, of course, is death.
This
is the beginning of a very interesting partnership. Bones has his own agenda
and it is not quite what he tells Cat. (Once I got done with the book I had to go back and re-read the beginning,
knowing what I now knew about Bones.) Bones trains her to fight better,
toughens her up and they work together to kill the vampires who kill innocent
people.
One
complication, her mother, Justina, has always told Cat that she was the product
of a rape by a vampire. From the time
she is 16 years old, Cat feels she has to atone for that by killing vampires,
who must all be evil, as Justina tells
her. It’s a good time as Cat unlearns some of her prejudices.
Just
plain good old-fashioned vampire fun.
The
series continues with several books, the second one “One Foot in the Grave” is
another rollicking good time and I am currently reading the third in the
series. I don’t want to give too much away but I am thoroughly enjoying them
and I hope you will too.
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