so much fun. I love this series. ( )

Charlie getting annoying. Pregnant and still doesn't give any thought to consequence's before jumping in ( )

Another exciting book in the Charley Davidson series by Darynda Jones! Charley is amassing quite a cast of characters to help her figure out the mystery that is her, Beep, and Reyes Farrow, and how to best prepare for the conflict to come. Cookie is there, of course, as is Uncle Bob, but you start to see how everybody has a place in all of this, and I love that. There's also the matter of a missing father, a rash of possible suicides (or are they?), and a ghost who needs help finding her body when it goes missing from her grave, and Charley's dance card is definitely full.

Highly recommend - 5/5 stars. ( )

Ugh! More dead children! I wish this author would try to refrain from having awful things happen to children. It is my biggest complaint about this series. In almost every book, she has small children ghosts who have died in some horrendous manner. It irks me beyond belief.

In this book, Charley is working on a cold case with Special Agent Carson. It seems like a five-person murder until Charley sees more ghosts around the murder site, all little girls. When Charley follows one little girl into the woods, she hears a blood-curdling growl. Charley knows it is a hellhound even before the little girl tells her that they were summoned and to run. Charley hightails it out of there.

Charley is the Grim Reaper but learning that she is way more than just a portal for souls to pass through and because of this Satan wants to kill her. Her friend, Garrett, is working on translating a prophesy that is written not only in an ancient language but also in code but the one thing they do know is that twelve hellhounds are after her and she has no idea how to kill them.

Her Uncle Bob has a case for her where people have been writing suicide notes but there is no body. They have just up and disappeared.

A frantic ghost named Lacey pleads with Charley to help her find her missing body which is no longer in the grave.

Charley can’t get ahold of her father. He won’t return her calls which is starting to worry her.
And Reyes, who never pays attention to other women, just put his back to her and blocked her from seeing the newswoman who was shamelessly flirting with him.

Oh! And I almost forgot. Charley is pregnant! We found out at the end of the last book.

Reyes gets mad at her at one point in the book because she keeps charging into dangerous situations without thinking about the consequences and she keeps trying to ditch him which is stupid because he is the one who saves her from 99% of the dangerous situations she gets herself into. He thinks her priorities are messed up and I had to agree with him.

I love how even though Charley is facing dangerous situations, she can still be sarcastic and funny. I especially like how she and her best friend, Cookie interact. The cast of characters are also lovable or despicable and fascinating. The story just keeps getting better.

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Disclaimer: This review will be biased and unbalanced. I have love for this series and my objectivity suffers proportionally. I truly left off 1/2 star just because I'm certain there are probably flaws (all books have them) but my love for Charlie and the gang have blinded me to whatever they might be.

So a couple of days ago I was feeling rather sorry for myself. I injured my back – nothing serious, truly; just enough to put a hitch in my gitalong and make me feel mopey and old. My husband came home and put a book package on the coffee table. After I pointed out the cruelty of putting a new book on a surface that was just out of my reach (can't bend down, of course), he handed it to me and upon opening it discovered my copy of Seventh Grave and No Body. Proof that God takes pity on me, because I NEVER get my pre-ordered books on release day; living on the tail end of the world means everything always takes days later to arrive than it does for the U.S./Europe.

Suddenly my back injury was a spend-all-day-reading free card, and boy howdy did I use it.

So in the last book prophesies about Charlie's existence and her role in the final battle became clearer. In this one, Charlie starts finding out what she's truly capable of. Reyes always told her she was more powerful than any other being, but Charlie always seemed to view it as rhetoric. Now she finds out it isn't, but that she can still get her ass handed to her when she leasts expects it. Circumstances are also forcing her to confront her immaturity too; big changes are coming and she can't keep living in the shallow end of the maturity pool. I always loved Charlie - even when her sass and snark were obvious coping mechanisms - but I quite like the (only slightly) more mature version too. She still hides behind sarcasm and smart-ass banter, but she's also utterly selfless and has a firm grip on what's important.

As with all the books, there are several story lines running simultaneously; human mysteries as well as mythical ones. I like this style - it keeps things moving and avoids that mid-book bogging down that sometimes happens. My only complaint: one of the story lines (a small one that has no meaning to the overall plot of this book) doesn't get wrapped up and I wanted to know what happened. The sub-plot setting reminded me of the X-Files episode "Closure" and I was sorry not to find out how it ends.

I'm not going to say more - although I could babble ad naseum, because I don't want to spoil anything for anyone. Things happen. Big things. Suffice it to say that I loved reading it, I'm sorry it's over, and how many days until book 8? ( )