ARC Review: The Other Half of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

I have to say, I was extremely excited when I found out about this book.  Bones’ side of the story?  Yes, please!!!  I jumped into this story without doing a re-read of the series because I didn’t want Cat’s voice in my head and I’m glad I didn’t.

I don’t think anyone who’s read this series will be surprised by Bones.  He is who he is and he doesn’t apologize for it…that doesn’t change.  What stood out to me was how quickly this master vampire fell for Cat.  He hid a lot of how he was feeling from Cat and that was shocking (since I thought he was an open book from her perspective).  While we thought their relationship was slow-building, that was really one-sided.  Cat spent that time learning to not hate vampires while Bones tried not to let his true feelings for her leak all over their interactions.  It was interesting and truly made me love Bones a little bit more than I did before.

I’m not sure if the author intends to retell the entire series from Bones’ perspective, but I really hope she does.  His thoughts are fascinating and his inner monologue over Cat’s actions is fabulous.  She frustrates him as much as entertains him, so getting that will be priceless.