In the last book, Charley had been worried and pondering over how to get the innocents out of the hell dimension locket God had made for his half brother Reyes, her husband, who is also the son of Satan. Charley decides to go inside, but Reyes vetoes that idea as she is too important as a grim reaper and a god herself. So Reyes decides to go inside and all Charley needs to do to get him out is call him by his given name. But it doesn't work and an hour passes before suddenly the glass locket is broken to pieces and the innocents cross over through her and Reyes comes out only he isn't Reyes he's Rey'azikeen, the evil god Reyes was created from.
Charley doesn't tell anyone for a couple of days because she feels she can handle it alone, but she can't and is forced to ask for help from the gang. Michael the Archangel visits to tell her that an army is coming down to attack Rey'azikeen. Charley asks for more time and he gives her three days. The three days she has already mostly used. Osh and Garrett and Charley plan a trap for him that doesn't go as planned and Charley and Rey\azikenn have hot sex on the celestial plane so what that means is anyone's guess.
Then he destroys the run down psych ward where Rocket, Blue, and Strawberry haunt and where Rocket keeps track of the dead and living. He's looking for something like an ember or ashes but Rocket wouldn't tell him or Charley what it was. He keeps popping up everywhere threatening her and demanding that she tell him where to find what he's looking for but Charley has no idea what that is.
Meanwhile, Charley\s tattoo artist friend Pari who went out with a guy named Hector while on a break from her boyfriend. They only went out twice and that was so she could drive his hot car. Then suddenly he's obsessed with her and cutting up her nightgowns and other creepy stuff. She and her boyfriend get back together. Then one night Hector comes over and is strangling her when her boyfriend happens by and grabs her baseball bat and swings it at his head. There\s no body, but the police come around asking her about him as he's dead. Pari has asked Charley to look into his death and find out what happened. To see if they did anything wrong.
There are also these bizarre murders that involve burning flesh and gruesome death of these various different people who all have something in common. What else came out of that glass, or is Rey\azikeen responsible?
This was a good book, though you'll be screaming at Charley to read those books and finish them. The Pari story is interesting, which any story with Pari in it is going to be, and we get to finally find out what happened to Strawberry\s brother. I did enjoy this book and the end was a surprise I suppose. I give it four out of five stars.
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Listed At Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Twelfth-Grave-Charley-Davidson/dp/1250147557/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1582035311&sr=1-1“Is this going to be one of those life lesson things? Nobody compares to you so it\s not fair.” “Is this going to be one of those guilt trip things? ‘Cause they don’t really work when I’m around. I can sense insincerity, remember?”=Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 40)I once made a pot of coffee so strong it opened a jar for me.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 43)\\If I manage to survive the rest of the week, I would like my straightjacket hot pink and my helmet sparkly.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 59)I always carry a knife in my purse…you know, in case of cheesecake or something.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 69)Why is it so hard to find an exercise bike with a nice little basket where I can put my vodka and nachos.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 92)I’m not saying I don’t like you. I’m just saying I’d unplug your life support to make a pot of coffee.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 105)Never ask a woman who’s eating ice cream straight from the carton how she’s doing.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 125)Stress has a way of aging a person.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 149)If I were a Jedi, there’s a 100% chance I’d use the Force inappropriately.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 142)Apparently, “Just Fuck Me Up”, is not an appropriate coffee order at Starbucks.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 160)“Charley, you’re pulled in so many different directions I don’t know how you do it.” “Right? I put in my bid for Elastigirl serum, so the minute the scientific communitygets its act together and creates something more useful than Viagra, I’m set”-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 169)Some days I amaze myself. Other days I put my keys in the fridge.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 176)It just occurred to me that you could substitute Miranda rights for wedding vows. Verbatim.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 215)I try to take one day at a time, but lately several days have attacked me at once.-Darynda Jones (The Trouble With Twelfth Grave p 262)
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