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Both Feet in the Grave
by Jeaniene Frost
Mild spoilers if you haven't read the Night Huntress series - but, like, don't start with this one anyway😅
“Her courage was one of the reasons Bones had fallen in love with her…and her recklessness was why he’d never known a night’s peace since.”
I love how this one started. We see Bones’s friendship with Randy form, which made me sad, not gonna lie, and we catch the tail end of his hunt for Cat, four years in the making. I would have liked to see some of the four years they were apart, but we got enough of Bones’ inner thoughts and feelings, so I didn’t mind missing those years too much.
A really specific part I liked, and maybe teared up in, was when Randy announced his engagement to Denise at the bar with Bones. That was such a sweet moment and both of them really needed that encouragement and friendship.
“Time has no dominion over love.” His voice thickened as memories raked him. “Love is the one thing that transcends time.”
Randy blinked rapidly before he looked away, as if Bones hadn’t already caught the sheen to Randy’s eyes. Yes, sometimes it meant the world to a person simply to not have someone stomp on your feelings just because they disagreed with them.
I really do love Bones’s POV. His all-consuming love for Cat was so apparent. His insecurities at the beginning, questioning her love for him. His pain when he thought she didn’t love him, ughhh, I felt all of that in this book! It made my heart hurt for Bones so much.
“Why hadn’t she used it yet? Didn’t…didn’t she want to see him again?”
There were funny times in this book, don’t get me wrong, but for me, this was about Bones’s emotional journey into finding Cat again and having love back in his life. In Cat’s book, we get her POV of what it was like to miss Bones, but I think it was so much more emotional told from his POV.
“Bones forced himself to let her go. It was that, or hold her even tighter because right now, he couldn't touch her and not clutch her to him.”
Since I read this book at the end of my full Night Huntress Universe read, I forgot how much of a dink Ian was in the beginning. It was nice reading about Ian from Bones’s POV though, it gave us a little more insight into their friendship.
“Lucifer’s burning bollocks, had he come to love his smarmy sire? What rotten luck.”
Overall, this was a great read, and if you’ve read the Night Huntress series and want more of Bones and Cat, definitely read this one too (but read Bones’s first book, The Other Half of the Grave, first).
Thank you so much to Netgalley and Jeaniene Frost for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review!