Eighth Grave After Dark by Darynda Jones [Review]

Eighth Grave After Dark (Charley Davidson #8) by Darynda Jones
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Date read: November 4, 2018

Charley Davidson
1. First Grave on the Right
1.5. For I Have Sinned
2. Second Grave on the Left
3. Third Grave Dead Ahead 
4. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
5. Fifth Grave Past the Light
6. Sixth Grave on the Edge
7. Seventh Grave and No Body
8. Eighth Grave After Dark - Paperback | Kindle
8.5. Brighter than the Sun
9. The Dirt on Ninth Grave
10. The Curse of Tenth Grave
11. Eleventh Grave in Moonlight
12. The Trouble with Twelfth Grave
13. Summoned to Thirteenth Grave
13.5. The Graveyard Shift
13.6. The Gravedigger's Son
13.7. The Graveside Bar and Grill
13.8. The Grave Robber

Darynda Jones
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

With twelve hellhounds after her, pregnant Charley Davidson takes refuge at the only place she thinks they can’t get to her: the grounds of an abandoned convent. But after months of being cooped up there, Charley is ready to pop. Both metaphorically and literally since she is now roughly the size of a beached whale. Fortunately, a new case has captured her attention, one that involves a murder on the very grounds the team has taken shelter upon. A decades-old murder of the newly-vowed nun she keeps seeing in the shadows is almost enough to pull her out of her doldrums.

Charley’s been forbidden to step foot off the sacred grounds. While the angry hellhounds can’t traverse the consecrated soil, they can lurk just beyond its borders. They have the entire team on edge, especially Reyes. And if Charley didn’t know better, she would swear Reyes is getting sick. He grows hotter with every moment that passes, his heat scorching across her skin every time he’s near, but naturally he swears he’s fine.

While the team searches for clues on the Twelve, Charley just wants answers and is powerless to get them. But the mass of friends they’ve accrued helps. They convince her even more that everyone in her recent life has somehow been drawn to her, as though they were a part of a bigger picture all along. But the good feelings don’t last for long because Charley is about to get the surprise of her crazy, mixed-up, supernatural life….

Thoughts on Eighth Grave After Dark: Charley's bun is cooking and Charley's stuck on hallowed ground. Which is a good thing because the baby needs to be kept safe, but Charley's hyperactive personality has a hard time with the confinement. Which basically means she finds ways to stick her nose in things even from the convent.

MEANWHILE, Reyes is being shifty, her ghostly friends might not be as friendly as Charley thinks, and there's a wedding to get off the ground. Metaphorically speaking.

Charley's confinement does keep her from doing some of the insane things she's managed to accomplish in previous books. No, wait. She still takes crazy risks. The woman has no sense of self-preservation. Beep does temper her SOMEWHAT, but not all that much when all is said and done. Which doesn't mean she doesn't love her baby to pieces. She's just hardwired to help people who need it.

That ending pretty much means I need to start book 9 immediately. Which is totally doable. Because THINGS HAPPEN and I'd like to know how things are going to work out.