Book Review of The Other Half of the Grave (A Night Huntress Novel) by Jeaniene Frost

The Other Half of the Grave is part of the Night Huntress Universe series.

In 2007, Jeanine Frost published her book Halfway to the Grave, a novel about Cat Crawford, a half-vampire woman bent on killing as many vampires as possible. She tries to kill the wrong vampire and is captured by Bones, a bounty hunter and Master vampire more than two centuries old.

Their love story birthed a saga that is now almost twenty books long and includes four separate series within the same world.

Now, in The Other Half of the Grave, Bones gets a voice. It's the story of the first book, this time from his side.

Books like this can so easily go very wrong, but I loved Cat and Bones so much, I had to give it a try.

Here is my review of Halfway to the Grave for reference.

Bones as a character is portrayed in the other books as snarky, irreverent, and serious and lighthearted in turns. He's fun and funny, but when he means business, it gets serious. Cat means everything to him and he'd do anything for her. Throughout the seven books from her perspective, Bones's affection and devotion never waver.

I found the portrayal in this book to be right in line with what I knew of him from the other books. It was beautiful to see the process of him falling in love with Cat even as she hated him, and the utter elation when she finally let herself admit she was falling for him.

Additionally, the depiction of the vampire world from Cat's perspective was the same factually in this book, though from a different perspective, which I liked. Bones and Cat have very different voices in my opinion, which is crucial--and also very hard to pull off.

I already knew I loved the story and the author's style, but the key would be in how she tackled the flip in perspective. She updated the technology and changed a couple of other things to make the story make more sense in this decade, but the rest is the same as in Halfway to the Grave.

In short, I loved the book and the way Jeaniene Frost gave life to Bones. I think this is one of the rare times when something like this works.

There is a new Bones book coming out in April of 2023, and I can't wait.