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| Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeaniene Frost
Publisher: Harper Collins World
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 10870
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061245089
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061245084
ASIN: 0061245089
Publication Date: November 30, 2007
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 Wooo! October 7, 2008
This book was great. I was recommended to try it, realised I had it on my TBR pile and hooked it out. Finished in 2 days, and can't wait to get hold of the next one in the series 'One Foot in the Grave'.
'If Buffy and Angel had a daughter, she'd be just like Cat Crawfield, a vampire hunter with some vampire blood and an attitude.
Cat's got a few skeletons in her closet... and some buried in the backyard. The half-vampire is out to rid the world of these hideous night creatures, and when she's captured by Bones, she realizes the master vampire has a few things to teach her.
Teaming up with one of "them" wasn't in her plans, but now that the stakes have been raised, she is faced with the most difficult fight of all....'
Halfway To The Grave is the debut novel from new author Jeaniene Frost. It follows the story of Cat a vampire/human hybrid, as she goes from being an amateur vampire slayer to being a force to be reckoned with after she teams up with Bones, the master vampire who teaches her all about killing vampires. Along the way they manage to kill some evil vampires, destroy a white slavery ring and fall in love, making for an action packed novel.
X-rated paranormal romance September 30, 2008
Given the explicit sex, swearing and rampant gory violence, this isn't exactly Mills & Boon plus vampires. So, yes, I enjoyed it a lot and have already ordered the sequel. You will probably feel the same as me unless you actually wanted M&B plus vamps.
Just one thing caught my snarky attention. When offered a choice between the evolutionary and creationist origins of vampires, our heroine immediately opts for the latter, saying that she's a believer. First of all many devout Christians accept evolution without a qualm so it's hardly an either/or issue which leads me to suspect the author herself believes in the stupidity which is creationism. Or, I hope, she could just be taking the easy way out by blaming it (as has been done by several other authors in the past) on Cain.
Still, despite triggering one of my prejudices, it didn't spoil my enjoyment of this fun book.
Brilliant...! August 13, 2008
Can't get enough of these books, funny, exiting and sexy. Desperate for the next installment as have red the first two half a dozen time.
 Average vampire fiction April 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was recommended to me by amazon. I read a lot of Urban Fantasy / Romance so I and I knew I liked the sound of having a protagonist who was a half vampire. However, it became clear to me within the first few chapters that the book was lacking. It wasn't until near the end that the book picked up pace.
The story belted along at a frantic pace, however, it felt disjointed and also as though too many ideas were thrown into the melting pot. The relationship between Cat and Bones seemed very unrealistic, given that in the first instance they had only met a few days before. Cat was meant to be tough but she gave into Bones all too easily at the beginning by joining him in his training. The book tries to sell Cat as a rebellious young woman who won't be told what to do, but in the end she seemed a bit watered down.
My biggest problem with this book was with the character of Bones. He seemed to be a cross between Spike and Mr Darcy. Bones's speech patterns seemed very irregular and as an English person I can testify that I don't use the words `pet' or `luv' in every sentence. There was a lack of understanding about British speech patterns in writing the character, and I think the language is the key to that character and it didn't sit right. Also, Bones' back story/ history was anachronistic and was full of little holes. This may not seem a major problem to most readers but if you're going to right about a vampire who is from a different country then at least get the research right.
There were some positives about the book. I enjoyed the idea of having a half vampire/ half human protagonist; and some of the ideas behind the vampire myth were very nifty. I thought that when the book did pick up pace it was considerably better.
A little gem April 16, 2008
I bought this book after reading some of the reviews on Amazon, so thank you, all you readers. I thought the book was an extremely enjoyable read. I really like the heroine, Cat or Kitten, as her vampire boyfriend calls her.I found the dialogue between Cat and Bones witty and well written. The only grip I did have was that I found Cat's mother really annoying. I will certainly be buying the next book in the series.
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