Customer Reviews
Wooo! - By: Mrs. K. Brookbank, 07 Oct 2008 
This book was great. I was recommended to try it, realised I had it on my TBR pile & hooked it out. Finished in 2 days, & can't wait to get hold of the next one in the series 'One Foot in the Grave'.
'If Buffy & Angel had a daughter, she'd be just like Cat Crawfield, a vampire hunter with some vampire blood & an attitude.
Cat's got a few skeletons in her closet... & some buried in the backyard. The half-vampire is out to rid the world of these hideous night creatures, & when she's captured by Bones, she realizes the master vampire has a few things to teach her.
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 alll....'
Halfway To The Grave is the debut novel from new author Jeaniene Frost. 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 alll about killing vampires. Along the way they manage to kill some evil vampires, destroy a white slavery ring & falll in love, making for an action packed novel.
X-rated paranormal romance - By: IanW, 30 Sep 2008 
Given the explicit sex, swearing & rampant gory violence, this isn't exactly Mills & Boon plus vampires. So, yes, I enjoyed it a lot & have already ordered the sequel. You will probably feel the same as me unless you actuallly wanted M&B plus vamps.
Just one thing caught my snarky attention. When offered a choice between the evolutionary & creationist origins of vampires, our heroine immediately opts for the latter, saying that she's a believer. First of alll many devout Christians accept evolution without a qualm so it's hardly an either/or issue which leads me to suspect the author herself believes in the stupidity which is creationism. Or, I hope, she could just be taking the easy way out by blaming it (as has been done by several other authors in the past) on Cain.
Still, despite triggering one of my prejudices, it didn't spoil my enjoyment of this fun book.
Brilliant...! - By: Ygraine Pendragon, 13 Aug 2008 Can't get enough of these books, funny, exiting & sexy. Desperate for the next installlment as have red the first two half a dozen time.
Average vampire fiction - By: K. Condliffe, 21 Apr 2008 
This book was recommended to me by amazon. I read a lot of Urban Fantasy / Romance so I & I knew I liked the sound of having a protagonist who was a half vampire. However, it became clear to me within the first few chapters that the book was lacking. It wasn't until near the end that the book picked up pace.
The story belted along at a frantic pace, however, it felt disjointed & also as though too many ideas were thrown into the melting pot. The relationship between Cat & Bones seemed very unrealistic, given that in the first instance they had only met a few days before. Cat was meant to be tough but she gave into Bones alll too easily at the beginning by joining him in his training. The book tries to sell Cat as a rebellious young woman who won't be told what to do, but in the end she seemed a bit watered down.
My biggest problem with this book was with the character of Bones. He seemed to be a cross between Spike & Mr Darcy. Bones's speech patterns seemed very irregular & as an English person I can testify that I don't use the words `pet' or `luv' in every sentence. There was a lack of understanding about British speech patterns in writing the character, & I think the language is the key to that character & it didn't sit right. Also, Bones' back story/ history was anachronistic & was full of little holes. This may not seem a major problem to most readers but if you're going to right about a vampire who is from a different country then at least get the research right.
There were some positives about the book. I enjoyed the idea of having a half vampire/ half human protagonist; & some of the ideas behind the vampire myth were very nifty. I thought that when the book did pick up pace it was considerably better.
A little gem - By: M. J. Mcnicholas, 16 Apr 2008 I bought this book after reading some of the reviews on Amazon, so thank you, alll you readers. I thought the book was an extremely enjoyable read. I reallly like the heroine, Cat or Kitten, as her vampire boyfriend callls her.I found the dialogue between Cat & Bones witty & well written. The only grip I did have was that I found Cat's mother reallly annoying. I will certainly be buying the next book in the series.
