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victoriaknow 's review for:
Halfway to the Grave
by Jeaniene Frost
Couldn't get much of a sense of the characters or the world they inhabited. It seemed like only the parts of the world that were relevant to the story were described, and that made the story feel quite rushed, since there were almost no "normal life" breaks from pushing the plot forward. At one point it's stated that Cat gets good grades, but I have no idea what her college life is like, even though it's supposedly the setting for the story. Why bother to put her at college if you aren't going to incorporate that setting into the story. The relationships felt rushed. I agree with another review I read which suggested that the relationship between Cat and Bones would have been better if it had been allowed to develop slowly over the length of a few books (as in Lynn Flewelling's Night Runner Series). The awful attempt at British English for Bones's character got on my nerves at first. It wasn't so much the artificial addition of supposedly British words, but rather that he seemed to speak American English all the rest of the time. I got used to it and was able to ignore it after a while though. The action scenes were ok, but Cat seemed to be a bit too invincible towards the end. I couldn't get a proper sense of her character as she seems naive and insecure one minute but cocksure and self-confident the next. I didn't like her mother at all and so didn't buy the decision to drop Bones for her mother's sake. I probably won't bother with any more books from this series, unless I'm very desperate. Although to be fair I did hate the first Vampire Academy book and loved them by the end of the series... We shall see.