Cemetery Girl: Haunted, Book Three by Charlaine Harris and more

Cemetery Girl: Haunted, Book Three
by Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden and Geraldo Borges [741.5 Har]

Having enjoyed the first two volumes in the Cemetery Girl graphic novel series by Charlaine Harris and Christopher Golden, with art by Don Kramer in 2014 and 2015, I’ve been eagerly waiting for the next entry. Apparently, in the intervening years, this project jumped from one publisher to another, and in the process lost its illustrator. Well, Cemetery Girl is back now, with a final volume, in what is being described as a trilogy. Artist Geraldo Borges replaces Don Kramer, but otherwise, this final entry seamlessly fits in with the preceding volumes, Pretender and Inheritance.

Calexa Rose Dunhill isn’t her real name. But she can’t remember what that is. She was dumped in a small cemetery, near death, and awoke with no memories of who she was. What she quickly discovered, however, was that she had the ability for her body to be temporarily inhabited by the spirits of the recently deceased. And she’s being hunted by somebody who wants her dead. In this final volume, the events of the two earlier entries give Calexa hope that she might be able to have a normal life again. But the threats that took away her memory are still out there, and she may be endangering the friends who’ve become her new family.

The artwork in this volume is spectacular, and the storytelling is crisp and fast-paced. Charlaine Harris is perhaps best known for the Sookie Stackhouse paranormal novels (that were turned into the TV series True Blood). Christopher Golden has made a name for himself in TV and movie novelizations. Together, they tell an engaging story, filled with characters that you easily grow to care about. I’m sorry to see that this series is ending, but if it does have to end, at least it did so with a satisfying conclusion.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try the first two in this trilogy, The Pretenders and Inheritance, by the same authors.]

[ publisher’s official Cemetery Girl web site ] | [ official Charlaine Harris web site ]

Recommended by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library

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