The Dirt on Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones [Review]

The Dirt on Ninth Grave (Charley Davidson #9) by Darynda Jones
Format: ebook
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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
8.5. Brighter than the Sun
9. The Dirt on Ninth Grave - Paperback | Kindle
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):

In a small village in New York lives Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback. Stranger still are the people entering her life. They seem to know things about her. Things they hide with lies and half-truths. Soon, she senses something far darker. A force that wants to cause her harm, she is sure of it. Her saving grace comes in the form of a new friend she feels she can confide in and the fry cook, a devastatingly handsome man whose smile is breathtaking and touch is scalding. He stays close, and she almost feels safe with him around.

But no one can outrun their past, and the more lies that swirl around her—even from her new and trusted friends—the more disoriented she becomes, until she is confronted by a man who claims to have been sent to kill her. Sent by the darkest force in the universe. A force that absolutely will not stop until she is dead. Thankfully, she has a Rottweiler. But that doesn't help in her quest to find her identity and recover what she's lost. That will take all her courage and a touch of the power she feels flowing like electricity through her veins. She almost feels sorry for him. The devil in blue jeans. The disarming fry cook who lies with every breath he takes. She will get to the bottom of what he knows if it kills her. Or him. Either way.

Thoughts on The Dirt on Ninth Grave: I feel like this book was the calm before the storm. I mean, we still got Charley being Charley even when she wasn't herself, but things were relatively mellow. Well, except for the demon determined to do VERY BAD things to our Reaper, but PFFT! Whatever. Charley's dealt with worse in her day.

Speaking of which, I liked that Charley still had that drive to help even when she had no clue who or what she was. She was still wildly attracted to Reyes. She was still best friends with Cookie. She was still fundamentally Charley, just a Charley who didn't remember anything.

Which is kind of endearing. Is that just me? I mean her hyperactive motor mouth is amusing. I like the lady and her quirks. She makes me laugh whether she has her memory or not.

I've sort of binge read my way through the last few books in this series and I'm growing...I don't know. Like, concerned? Maybe? THINGS are happening and right now I can't quite see how it's going to play out and I REALLLLLLY want good stuff to happen to Charley and her little family. REALLLLLLLY. So I'm going to keep on reading to see what's what.