A review by joyreads2024
One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

This book would be stunning without the continuously annoying Don and now Madigan. Don's attitude is actually why I find this series so annoying to read at times - if we removed him and just had all the other characters, this would be even better but NOOO. We have to have Don. It appears any character development he had over the series went bye bye like his body dear god. And don't get me even started on Madigan - Justina improved so we needed another asshole?? omg. 

I will say though that the twists and turns and the plot twist at the end were unexpected and I wasn't prepared for it. The other characters make this book what it is. The story itself was really interesting with there being three parts: (1) Don being back and being stuck as a ghost (2) Madigan being a twat and what his end goal is (3) Kramer, a ghostly, psychotic witch hunter who becomes solid once a year on Samhain to torture and kill three women a year. The first one dropped off pretty quickly, the last was the focus, and Madigan was the annoying asshole. 

There were some other slight issues with this book like having a stereotypical Lafayette from True Blood character, but Tyler did absolutely rock in this book so at least he wasn't a 2 dimensional character; and a very minor plot hole about where the pets were lol.

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