Redheaded Reviews: Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darndya Jones

In the last book, Reyes found out he was a god and that Grim Reaper Charley had a god glass that was made to hold Reyes by his brother God. Right now it holds one bad god and one demon and some innocent souls that a preacher placed in there in the 1400s. It requires you to know the name of the person inside to let them out and Charley doesn't know the names of the innocents so she can't let them out. The other two she put in there. Reyes's human sister was murdered and they have a continuous group of "people" watching over Beep including Osh, the former slave demon who is slated to be Beep's husband. She also threated God by saying that she was going to take over the world. Now she has angels following her around all over the place.

Shawn Foster comes into Charley\s office which is an interesting coincidence because Charley is investigating his adoptive parents The Fosters who stole Reyes from his parents before dropping him off with the horrid man he grew up with. Charley believes that Reyes wasn't the only one and Shawn knows that he was adopted and possibly stolen and wants to know who his parents are. They told him they died in a fire when he asked. It also turns out that Shawn is half-angel half-human and that the Fosters are looking for pure souls to save and kill the unpure ones. Reyes wants her to drop the case. Also, for some reason, her Uncle Bob wants her to stay inside and out of the way for the next few days. That's not suspicious at all. They have a rotation of entities watching over Bob because he was supposed to die and go to Hell, because of something he did a few years ago that saved Charley but was murder, however, they thwarted that in the last book but they're not sure if they completely stopped it or not. And Bob is acting really weird to the point that Cookie thinks he's having an affair. Charley doesn't think that's it but has no idea what he's up to either.

Amber, Cookie's daughter, wakes up Charley and Reyes cutting herself with a knife and prophesying about Charley's future about how she's a god-eater and that she's going to ice over Hell. Stress brings out the prophesying and Amber is stressed out about being stalked on her cell phone. They're really nasty texts that indicate that the person is following her and sees what she texts to others on her phone. This person also threatened her stepdad Charley's Uncle Bob. Charley sets up a trap with Amber as bait.

With a god on this plane hunting Charley to kill her, Reyes is getting serious about Charley's training. He teaches her how to travel from place to place and how to dematerialize. He also gets it into her head that she is only a pinch human and nearly all god and therefore cannot be killed by dropping her off the top of a tall building. Charley plans on getting back at him for that.

This was another sizzling book by Jones who puts lots of heat and action and sarcasm to mix together to form the perfect blend of mocha latte that gets Charley going in the morning. Charley is a delightful character that you just can't get enough of and her regular cast of minions such as Cookie, Angel, Swopes, Bob, Osh, and of course her partner Reyes come together to make the perfect book. And as usual, she leaves it on that killer cliffhanger that has you begging for more. Not everyone makes it out alive, but that's true of all of her books. This was an amazing book and I loved it a lot. I give it five out of five stars.

Quotes

Lord, help me be the person my psychiatrist medicates me to be.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 1)

Nothing good ever came out of a conversation that started with “We need to talk.”

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 7)

Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 14)

Talking to yourself is OK. Answering back is risky.

-Brian Spellman

You couldn’t lose him if you were seventeen, on a date with Thor, and he was your virginity.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 29)

Why yes, I have discovered the joy of cooking. It’s when my husband does it.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 41)

She has moments when she seems stable, but then so does nitroglycerin.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 55)

The young girl behind the desk took the tried-and-true attitude of sheer boredom and transformed it into an art form. She barely looked out of high school. Nobody mastered the epitome of boredom like a teenager. Sadly, as we aged, we lost the delicate intricacies of the skill set. It was like losing an ancient language or a potato soup recipe.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 66)

I’d fought demons and malevolent gods and even Lucifer himself, and nothing terrified me more than an angry two-year-old.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 66)

A lot of people are only alive because I shed too much hair to ever get away with murder.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 70)

Whoever invented a coffeemaker with a timer deserved a Nobel Prize. He’d probably saved more lives than Prozac.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 98-99)

Children are magic because they look for it.

-Christopher Moore

Thank god I don’t have to hunt for my food. I don’t even know where tacos live.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 138)

At that point, I was more or less voicing my stream of consciousness. If he sidn’t want to chat with me, I’d chat with me. I was excellent company.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 140)

I never said I’d die without coffee. I said other people would.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 151)

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Some days I just stay inside because if feels too peopley out there.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 183)

“How better to learn to control this than to give you dire consequences of you fail?” Male logic at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 200)

“Don’t walk over here. Be over here.” I gave up. “You know, I can’t tell if you’re channeling Obi-Wan of Yoda more.”

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 202)

Some days the supply of available curse words is insuffienct to meet my needs.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 228)

My entire life can be summed up in one sentence: “Well, that didn’t go as planned.’

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 245)

Life isn’t a fairy tale. IF you lose a shoe at midnight, you’re drunk.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 267)

I never make the same mistake twice. I make it like five or six times, you know, just to be sure.

-Darynda Jones (Eleventh Grave in Moonlight p 288)

She has been through hell, so believe me when I say, fear her when she looks into a fire and smiles.

-E. Corona