Up From the Grave by Jeaniene Frost [Review]

Up From the Grave (Night Huntress #7) by Jeaniene Frost
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: May 10, 2022

Night Huntress
0.5. Reckoning
1. Halfway to the Grave
1.5. Happily Never After
2. One Foot in the Grave
3. At Grave's End
3.5. Devil to Pay
4. Destined for an Early Grave
4.5. One for the Money
5. This Side of the Grave
6. One Grave at a Time
6.5. Home for the Holidays
7. Up from the Grave - Paperback | Kindle
8. A Grave Girls' Getaway
9. The Other Half of the Grave
10. Both Feet in the Grave

Jeaniene Frost
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

There’s always one more grave to dig.

Lately, life has been unnaturally calm for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband Bones. They should have known better than to relax their guard, because a shocking revelation sends them back into action to stop an all-out war…

A rogue CIA agent is involved in horrifying secret activities that threaten to raise tensions between humans and the undead to dangerous heights. Now Cat and Bones are in a race against time to save their friends from a fate worse than death…because the more secrets they unravel, the deadlier the consequences. And if they fail, their lives—and those of everyone they hold dear— will be hovering on the edge of the grave.

Thoughts on Up From the Grave: Confession: I have a VERY hard time reading the final book in a series I enjoy. No, that's not quite right. Reading it isn't the hard part. Knowing this is the end of a journey with characters I've come to adore is the hard part. So I tend to put off reading that final book (or books, sometimes) because I JUST.DON'T.WANT.IT.TO.END.

So when I say this book gave me all the conclusion I could ever have wanted, PLEASE take that into consideration. (Also, now that we've been given a novella and a Bones-centric book after this one, it's not really the end, is it?)

Epic conclusion, my friends. We get to see several dangling plot threads tied off and a whole lot of familiar faces. We get Cat and Bones being their sometimes murderous, always deeply in love with one another selves. We get twists and turns and a few more turns just for the fun of it. We get brutality and loyalty and a fresh start for several of our favorite vampires.

In other words, the ending didn't disappoint. (To be fair, I'm a huge fan of everyone getting to enjoy their lives and/or afterlives after giving their all for several books.) Cat and Bones have a future that doesn't involve getting potentially murdered every time they turn around. Well, probably. I mean, they ARE still Cat and Bones. They have enemies and they're not above causing a little mayhem when they need to. But the potential is there. You know, if they can keep themselves out of trouble.

A lot of blood, a lot of danger, a future no one (least of all Cat) ever expected, and a new beginning. In short, it was everything I wanted from their ending and then some. *thumbs up*