Not even a quarter of the way into the book, everyone gives up on any of the new names and all the characters call her Cat. Catherine “Cat†Crawfield has settled into her new life as Special Agent Catrina Arthur or maybe it’s Cristine Russell or Red Reaper or Brunette Reaper or somehow still Cat despite staging her death under that name. It’s been nearly five years since the events in Halfway to the Grave. Trigger warnings: sexual harassment, transphobia, bad writing I think It would be a good match for the Sookie fans, and anyone looking for action-packed paranormal romance. Maybe more Sookie Stackhouse than Mercy Thompson, given the number of sex scenes and their explicit descriptions. I’m trying to think of what series it’s most similar to. I could do without so much female rivalry and so many characters lusting after Cat, but with how it ended, I’m hoping that will be behind us in the coming books. The author is full of surprises, and I liked getting a little more characterization of the supporting characters. I didn’t want it to be dragged out, and it wasn’t.
I was worried there might be a lot of angsty relationship dithering when they were together again, but I was pleasantly surprised at how that played out. Cat can still be annoying, but nothing close to how she was in the first book, and it was refreshing to see her following her heart and mostly being reasonable about Bones instead of being a big martyr. I liked this one more, and I continue to love Bones. This is only the second book, but so far my prediction is coming true. When I read the first in this series, I predicted it would get better as it went along.
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