Death and the Girl Next Door

By: Darynda Jones

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Darynda Jones, author of The New York Times bestselling series that began with First Grave on the Right, brings us Death and the Girl Next Door, a thrilling Young Adult novel garnering high praise and early buzz from major authors
Ten years ago, Lorelei's parents disappeared without a trace. Raised by her grandparents and leaning on the support of her best friends, Lorelei is finally beginning to accept the fact that her parents are never coming home. For Lorelei, life goes on.
High school is not quite as painful as she thinks it will be, and things are as normal as they can be. Until the day the school's designated loner, Cameron Lusk, begins to stalk her, turning up where she least expects it, standing outside her house in the dark, night after night. Things get even more complicated when a new guy-terrifying, tough, sexy Jared Kovach-comes to school. Cameron and Jared instantly despise each other and Lorelei seems to be the reason for their animosity. What does Jared know about her parents? Why does Cameron tell Jared he can't have Lorelei? And what will any of them do when Death comes knocking for real? Thrilling, sassy, sexy, and inventive, Darynda Jones's first foray into the world of teens will leave readers eager for the next installment.

"Unique, witty, and touching-I LOVED THIS BOOK!" -P.C. Cast, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Night Series

Critic reviews

"[Jones's] kicky dialogue and great characters are super entertaining, and the story unfolds with some surprising twists. Add in some laugh-out-loud moments, a hot hero and a satisfying, but cliffhanger-y, ending and you’ve got a hit.” - RT Book Reviews

Cute Paranormal YA story

This book was cute. I'm not a huge fan of YA, but I really liked this author and narrator. The first thing that took me a while to get over was that I kept associating the voices to the voices from Charley Davidson. For example, this new boy in school named Jared uses the same voice as Reyes. Glitch, the main character's best friend, his voice is a lot like Uncle Bob's. In my mind, I kept wanting to put the characters in the wrong place.

The story starts off a little slow. It takes a long time to figure out who is what. Everything is explained, but not until the very end.

The jokes were cute, but they weren't the LOL funny of the adult series, but then this does not surprise me. I think the author did a great job of staying funny while staying in the YA appropriateness (I can't believe I just spelled this word correctly the first time. I wasn't even sure it was a word.). It is great if you want some light reading while still getting some humor. Definitely funnier than most YA books.

Stop insulting women and girls!

I am so tired of female terms being used as insults. For a female writer to do so is just that much more insulting. Ms. Jones is obviously not alone in this regard but this happens to be the book I am currently listening to. In this book the main female character uses "girl" to insult herself. The character is put forth as an intelligent, determined, caring person yet to show weakness the only insult that the author could come up with was to call her "such a girl". In addition "bitch" is often used to insult the male characters. I am sure there are other examples this book, since it is so prevalent in our culture, but I am not willing to listen to this book again just make a stronger point. I know it is about time that we as a culture stop accepting this in our language. Why do men and boys believe they are better than women and girls? Because our culture, through our language tells them so. It is about time women stand up and stop this. Women and girls are not lesser! Here's a challenge, write one book that does not use this insulting language, just once.

Younger version of Charlie

The book is definitely Darynda Jones. Same Charlie vernacular, “blood pooped in my abdomen”, very similar to the Charlie series. It was a good listen but it didn’t have the same “stay up all night” to finish the other series had. Overall, form me it was ok. I missed the memes at the beginning of each chapter. This is my opinion based on my knowledge of the Charlie series.

Worth the read!!

Very much worth the read. Kept me guessing what was next. On to book 2.

Great Book

I really love Darynda Jones she is my favorite author by far! I would and will read everything she has done!