Lorelei McAlister has been sent off to a boarding school in Maine, leaving her family and hopefully protecting them by doing so. Unfortunately, Maine holds a surprise that will send her right back home. The more Lorelei is around the students, the more visions of death she sees, all by the same destructive storm: the end of the world. She will have to venture back home to her family, friends, and boyfriend, the Angel of Death, and fight the final battle to save the ones she loves.

Having not read the first two books in the Darklight series, I was worried that I would have trouble getting a handle on everything going on in DEATH AND THE GIRL HE LOVES, but it sounded too good to pass up. Fortunately, author Darynda Jones does a wonderful job of giving brief backstories to everything going on, and it makes it super easy to keep up with all the incredible action. From the beginning, the writing in this book is seriously engrossing. Lorelei's narration is smooth and often funny, giving great comic relief to the high stakes battle going on around her. I love her interactions with the other characters, especially Death (swoon), and how the chemistry and friendship between them is displayed. You really get the feeling that if anyone is going to save the world, they would be the people to do it.

At first, the twist towards the end gave me mixed feelings. After thinking about it and reading to the very end, I am very pleased with how Lorelei's story wraps up. Given the set up made earlier in the book, it makes a lot of sense, and I'm glad the story takes the path that it does. It might mess with your mind a bit, but it answers all the important questions.

Overall, something about this book, Lorelei's excellent voice or maybe the idea of dating Death, just makes me love it. Jones is clearly a remarkable author, and I can't wait to pick up more books by her.

Book Summary

From Darynda Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of Death and the Girl Next Door and Death, Doom & Detention, comes Death and the Girl He Loves, the exciting third book in her new young adult series Darklight

The fate of the world is not something a girl wants on her shoulders, and that is especially true for Lorelei McAlister. Unfortunately for her, that is exactly where the world’s fate has decided to take up residence. Lorelei has seen firsthand the horrors that lie beneath our everyday world. And those horrors are getting her friends killed. Because of this, she agrees to leave the sanctity of her hometown and is sent to a different world entirely. A boarding school. But even here she is being watched.

Someone knows what she is. What she carries inside her soul. And on top of that she’s seeing visions. This is nothing new for Lorelei. But these visions are something more: death, destruction, and the end of the world. Lorelei must face the fact that there are people who want her dead, and no matter where she goes, no matter how far she runs, the lives of her friends and family are in mortal peril. Lucky for her, her friends and family include the handsome Angel of Death, a fiercely protective half-angel, and a ragtag group of loyal supporters who aren’t afraid to get a little dirty in the name of fighting pure evil.