Probably the biggest difference between Cat and Buffy is their mothers. They both have special vampire slaying abilities, they are both young, both have heavy burdens to bear and they are frequently misunderstood by the world. While Cat engenders less empathy than Buffy Summers, there are similarities between the two characters. If you still mourn the loss of the TV show, then help is a hand in the form of Cat and Bones. Halfway To The Grave is the novel that Buffy fans have been waiting for. To me, this often makes the romance and urban fantasy genres uncomfortable bedfellows and reading Halfway To The Grave I suffered with genre-confusion as I kept changing my mind about whether the book was urban fantasy (as I had first assumed) or romance (as the story turned out to be) or urban fantasy (as the novel ended up.) Finally, once I decided to pigeon hole the novel as urban fantasy my genre-confusion cessed and I was able to concentrate on the story.
The romance genre likes characters that a reader can empathise with and a HEA (happy ever after) is pretty much a given. The urban fantasy genre likes strong female protagonists with complicated love lives. While it is not impossible for urban fantasy and romance to co-exist within one story these genres do seem to pull their characters in opposite directions. Halfway To The Grave is a mixture of the urban fantasy and romance genres and it is hard to say which genre it fits into best. Along the way they manage to kill some evil vampires, destroy a white slavery ring and fall in love, making for an action packed novel. It follows the story of Cat a vampire/human hybrid, as she goes from being an amateur vampire slayer to being a force to be reckoned with after she teams up with Bones, the master vampire who teaches her all about killing vampires.
Halfway To The Grave is the debut novel from new author Jeaniene Frost. Teaming up with one of “them” wasn’t in her plans, but now that the stakes have been raised, she is faced with the most difficult fight of all…. The half-vampire is out to rid the world of these hideous night creatures, and when she’s captured by Bones, she realizes the master vampire has a few things to teach her. If Buffy and Angel had a daughter, she’d be just like Cat Crawfield, a vampire hunter with some vampire blood and an attitude.Ĭat’s got a few skeletons in her closet… and some buried in the backyard.
Published 2007 358 pages Summary (from the book jacket)
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