I’m reviewing Death And The Girl Next Door by Darynda Jones at Smexybooks

Death And The Girl Next Door (Darklight #1) by Darynda Jones
Paranormal Romance/YA
October 2, 2012
St. Martin’s press

Reviewed by Tori

Favorite Quote: “Turtles are not the innocent, harmless creatures everyone thinks they are. Mark my words.”

Darynda Jones hooked me solid with her adult Charley Davidson series, so I jumped quickly and trampled a few friends when offered a chance to read her debut YA series-Death And The Girl Next Door. I’m not proud of my actions, but I can live with them.

Lorelei MacAlister is your average high school sophomore. She has lived with her grandparents since her parents mysteriously disappeared ten years ago. She’s always had “visions” but they make no sense until she accidentally brushes against a dark handsome young man. Things turn surreal when antisocial bad boy Cameron Lusk suddenly begins to stalk Lorelei and the dark handsome young man shows up at her school as new student-Jared Kovach. The two boys seem to know each other and the animosity rolls off them, igniting the air, with Lorelei stuck in the middle. As Lorelei learns the reason behind their hatred for one another, she finds herself connected to both of them in ways she never imagined.

Death And The Girl Next Door is a YA paranormal romance, (reminiscent of her adult series), with humor, mystery, suspense, and witty dialogue. Personable characters keeps the story running along as Jones uses a majority of the book to set up the series and build her world. Heavily character driven, the three main protagonists are strong but enhanced by equally formidable secondary characters.

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I’m reviewing Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones at Smexybooks

 

Third Grave Dead Ahead (Charley Davidson #3) by Darynda Jones
Urban Fantasy
Hardcover
January 31, 2012
St. Martins Press

Favorite Scene:

“Oh my god!”
“What?”
“You’re naked.”
“I’m not naked.”
“I’m blind.”
“You’re not blind. I’m wearing pants.”
“Oh.”

At the end of Second Grave On The Left, Charley Davidson, grim reaper extraordinaire, did the unthinkable and bound the sexy supermodel son of Satan to his physical body when he was about to off himself and exist only in his metaphysical form. That left super sexy man a not so very happy camper. So unhappy that super sexy man refuses to see or talk to Charley. Now Charley is now drinking copious amounts of stolen coffee (cause that’s the best tasting) to avoid sleep because Reyes comes to her in her dreams and does some remarkably blush worthy things to her body. His visits leave her exhausted and hurt. Charley senses the anger Reyes feels and she knows that he doesn’t want to be there with her, doing the things they do. When Charley is given a new missing persons case she figures this is the best way to get Reyes out of her head but when he breaks out of prison with a crazy story that the man he supposedly killed isn’t dead and he wants Charley to find him she realizes that coffee isn’t going to cut it anymore. All the while she is dealing with her guilt ridden father, a nun who “eavesdrops” on the voices in her head, hot scruffy bikers, and a knife welding ghost who likes to pose as a hood ornament.

If you read no other books this year, you must stop and pick up Darynda Jones’s Third Grave Dead Ahead.

 

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