ABOUT THE BOOK:
Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the final
installment of Darynda Jones’ New York Times bestselling
paranormal series!
Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire,
is pissed. She’s been kicked off the earthly plane for eternity—which
is exactly the amount of time it takes to make a person stark, raving mad. But
someone’s looking out for her, and she’s allowed to return after a mere hundred
years in exile. Is it too much to hope for that not much has changed?
Apparently it is. Bummer.
She’s missed her daughter. She’s missed Reyes.
She’s missed Cookie and Garrett and Uncle Bob. Now that she’s back on earth,
it’s time to put to rest burning questions that need answers. What happened to
her mother? How did she really die? Who killed her? And are cupcakes or coffee
the best medicine for a broken heart? It all comes to a head in an epic
showdown between good and evil in this final smart and hilarious novel.
MY REVIEW:
ONE OF THE MOST LIFE CHANGING SERIES EVER HAS FINALLY COME TO ONE EPIC, JAW-DROPPING END!
Summoned To Thirteenth Grave is intense with breath-catching, heart stopping twists, laugh till it hurts humor, our favorite lovable characters and a stupendous plot! I DEVOURED this book in a little over a day and LOVED every minute of it while simultaneously feeling a twinge of sadness to see one of my most favorite series to ever hit my kindle come to an end. But dang, what a way to go. This story is EVERYTHING AND THEN SOME! Its PERFECT and worth reading again at least once a month.
Summoned To Thirteenth Grave gets a JAW-DROPPING TEN GAZILLION SHINNING, TWINKLING STARS!
Summoned To Thirteenth Grave is intense with breath-catching, heart stopping twists, laugh till it hurts humor, our favorite lovable characters and a stupendous plot! I DEVOURED this book in a little over a day and LOVED every minute of it while simultaneously feeling a twinge of sadness to see one of my most favorite series to ever hit my kindle come to an end. But dang, what a way to go. This story is EVERYTHING AND THEN SOME! Its PERFECT and worth reading again at least once a month.
Summoned To Thirteenth Grave gets a JAW-DROPPING TEN GAZILLION SHINNING, TWINKLING STARS!
BLURB:
A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper, Charley has to balance the good, the bad, the undead, and those who want her dead. In this eleventh installment, Charley is learning to make peace with the fact that she is a goddess with all kinds of power and that her own daughter has been born to save the world from total destruction. But the forces of hell are determined to see Charley banished forever to the darkest corners of another dimension. With the son of Satan himself as her husband and world-rocking lover, maybe Charley can find a way to have her happily ever after after all.
MY REVIEW:
DARYNDA JONES YOU DID IT AGAIN!! Eleventh Grave had me laughing so hard at times and completely enthralled, I actually finished this book in ONE FREAKING DAY! This might very well be the BEST one yet in Miss Jone's Charley Davidson Series...and the ending....I NEED TO GET THE NEXT BOOK...NOW in order to find out what will happen next.
Only Miss Jones can have me sighing over the cover, laughing at the humor, sighing and drooling over Reyes Farrow and wishing I was Charley Davidson. Her writing skills just doesn't cease to amaze me and I will not EVER get enough of this series. The twists and surprises are always fun and definitely make the story pop while the chemistry and sizzle between Charley and Reyes just seems to get stronger with each new book and the endings, yep, they will have you wanting to pull your hair out and BEG...DEMAND...CRY for the next book...I FREAKING LOVE IT! Eleventh Grave is an absolute favorite of mine and I am already in the process of rereading it again.
Eleventh Grave In Moonlight gets a FUN FILLED, SEXY FIVE SHOOTING STARS! Its perfectly mysterious, its perfectly fun, and definitely sexier than ever!
BUY LINK:
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Q&A with Darynda Jones
How did you come up with Charley?
So, I’m lying in bed one morning, waiting for my turn in the
shower, when Charley popped into my head in all her glory. I loved her from the
get-go. I will add that I was looking for her. I had just typed The End on my
second complete manuscript, a YA titled Death and the Girl Next Door which
later sold to my amazing editor along with the Charley books. So, I was craving
another project. I knew I wanted it to be adult and paranormal. That was all I
had. And then Charley walked in.
What has it been like to planning
and writing this series, and how does it feel to be wrapping it up?
I had no clue! I dreamed, of course. We all do that. But for
that dream to become a reality…it’s quite surreal. I have the best job in the
world. Planning and writing the last two books have been bittersweet. I love
writing these books so much, so the fact that it’s coming to an end is a little
heartbreaking, but I want to go out with a bang. Like a HUGE one. I hope everyone
loves reading them as much as I’ve loved writing them.
Are there any side characters or
plots you wish you would have developed more?
Actually, yes. In Fifth Grave Past the Light, I brought in a
character named Nicolette Lemay, gave her an insanely cool gift, then never
brought her back in again. We see her briefly in Twelfth Grave, but I wish I’d
done more with her.
Can you give us a sneak peek into
how it all ends? What do you hope readers feel as they reach the last page?
I am very hopeful that readers
will feel a sense of happiness, closure and (dare I dream?)
euphoria. All I can say is that this book is truly darkest before the
dawn. Charley and Reyes have accidentally opened a hell dimension within our
own, and they have to figure out how to close it before it takes over the
world. But it’s expanding exponentially, and soon there will be nothing left of
the world as we know it. But with a little help from Charley's departed mother,
one clue leads Charley in the right direction and, hopefully, to the secret to
stopping the hell dimension and save all of humanity. Sadly, she only has three
days to do it.
What's the next project you're
working on?
Right now I am working on a brand
new series, a trilogy set in a small town in New Mexico with a sheriff named
Sunshine, a missing girl named Olivia, and a murder suspect named Levi. Too bad
she is in way over her head, especially since the missing girl is her
daughter's best friend and Sunshine has been in love with Levi since she could
breathe.
FUN FACTS ABOUT THE CHARLEY DAVIDSON SERIES:
A FUN FACT FOR EACH
OF THE CHARLEY BOOKS:
First Grave on the Right
·
The concept for First Grave came about while Darynda
was working as a sign language interpreter in her hometown. She stole many of
the names from students at the schools where she worked, including Reyes,
Garrett, and Amber. As far as Darynda knows, they have all forgiven her for her
thievery.
Second Grave on the Left
·
Uncle Bob is a combination of two people:
Darynda’s oldest brother, Luther, and the principal at the high school where she
worked for several years.
Third Grave Dead Ahead
·
This was originally titled Third Grave Straight
Ahead, but Darynda’s web designer, Liz Bemis, asked her to change the name to
Dead Ahead. Firstly, it fit the content better, and secondly, Liz got tired of
spelling the word Straight wrong while updating the website. Dead is much
easier to type.
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
·
Quentin Rutherford makes his first appearance in
this book. While his first name was stolen from Darynda’s little brother and
his last name stolen from yet another Jr. High student, Quentin is physically sculpted
from her oldest son, Jerrdan, a bona fide blond-haired, blue-eyed devil with a
sparkling smile that melts even the staunchest of hearts. And, like Quentin
Rutherford, he was born Deaf. Not that he let it stop him for a second.
Fifth Grave Past the Light
·
This book was fun to write! Darynda was trying
to come up with something truly creepy to throw into the book, and she figured
what would be creepier than having an apartment full of departed women crawling
up the walls, skittering across the ceiling, and huddling in the corners? Also,
it is one of the hotter books, so that was fun, too. Because, you know, Reyes.
Sixth Grave on the Edge
·
Darynda really wanted to open this one on a
humorous note. She wanted to have Charley on a stakeout with a departed elderly
man, who also happens to be naked, riding shotgun. Which begs the question: Are
we really stuck in (or out of) whatever we are wearing when we die for all
eternity? ‘Cause that would suck.
Seventh Grave and No Body
·
Osh’ekiel was originally supposed to be in one
book only. And he was supposed to be a very bad guy. But Darynda fell in love
with him while writing the book and decided to redeem him and give him a bigger
role. Just how big his role would become didn’t come to Darynda until plotting
Eighth Grave. He has been one of her favorite characters since she wrote that
first scene with him.
Eighth Grave After Dark
·
Darynda wanted to really turn the tables on
Charley and force her to have to stay in one place, thus the sacred ground of
the convent came into play. It was fun and challenging to write a “locked room”
mystery, so to speak, but that’s why she loves writing so much.
The Dirt on Ninth Grave
·
One of Darynda’s favorite books in the series,
she looked forward to writing this book ever since she came up with the concept
while plotting Sixth Grave. Part of what makes a romance so fun is the
falling-in-love part, and she wanted Charley to fall in love with Reyes all
over again. This book was doubly fun because the audience knows all the
characters’ backstories, and they get to watch in anticipation as Charley
slowly unravels the mysteries of her past, while seeing her fall
head-over-heels for the same guy all over again.
The Curse of Tenth Grave
·
This book had one of those too-close-for-comfort
calls. Right before Tenth Grave went to print, after going through editors and
copyeditors and readers of all shapes and sizes, a savvy proofreader let
Darynda in on a little secret: A Sherpa is part of a culture, not an
occupation. Thanks to this razor-sharp reader, Darynda narrowly escaped
insulting an entire culture in one fell swoop. Aka, her worst nightmare. Her
gratitude is unending.
Eleventh Grave in Moonlight
·
Darynda dreamed of going to Scotland for so
long, she finally decided to just put it in one of her books. She had Charley
accidently materialize in the magical country, only to find out weeks after
finishing the book that she would finally get to go there herself. In person.
For realsies. It was even more magical than she’d imagined it would be, and she
can’t wait to go back.
The Trouble with Twelfth Grave
·
This book has one of Darynda’s favorite
epiphanies EVER!!! She thought, what if someone out there in the universe, a
child perhaps, knows everything about Reyes and Charley? Everything starting
from their supernatural heritage to their human identities? And what if that
person wrote a book about them? Or a series of books? Say, perhaps, a set of
children’s books and Garrett just happens to stumble upon them while doing
research? How fun would that be? And the international bestselling children’s
book (fictionally speaking) The First
Star was born.
Summoned to Thirteenth Grave
By far the hardest story in the
series to write, penning the last Charley book was a bittersweet experience.
But Darynda knew she had to go big or go home, so what better way to go out
with a bang than to end the world as we know it by starting the zombie
apocalypse? Because that’s what writers do. We start apocalypses
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author DARYNDA JONES won a Golden Heart and a RITA for her manuscript First
Grave on the Right. A born storyteller, she grew up spinning tales of
dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened
by, annoying man and beast alike. Darynda lives in the Land of Enchantment,
also known as New Mexico, with her husband and two beautiful sons, the Mighty,
Mighty Jones Boys.
DARYNDA’S SOCIAL LINKS:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Darynda
Website: http://www.daryndajones.com/
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