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Unholy Ghosts (Downside Ghosts, #1)

Stacia Kane

Finish date: May 25, 2010

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Aug 06, 2010 Literary Ames rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: series-abandoned, urban-fantasy, did-not-finish, paranormal, dtb, 1st-in-series, bye-bye, eastern-asiatic, authors-i-respect

I'm giving up on this one. I wasn't offended by it as others have been, I just found it uninteresting and was struggling to read every page with enough concentration to take in the information.

Chess isn't a very sympathetic character as she's rather selfish and unconvincing as a survivor of an abusive childhood. She's a functional addict but the drugs cause her to make mistakes in what can be a very dangerous job. Her troubles are of her own making as others exploit her weakness for pills in or ...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Carlyn rated it really liked it

I really enjoyed this book, it was very different and the premise was fantastic!
The ghosts rose in 1997 and killed a third of the population, religions collapsed and magic became the worlds savior as only they could banish the ghosts. Chess is a debunker which means she goes to people who claim they have a ghost and if they do she will get rid of it and give them compensation from the church, if they are lying they will be punished and Chess gets a bonus. Chess has a drug problem and runs up ag ...more

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Jun 17, 2011 Irene Hollimon rated it liked it · review of another edition

It was okay - just okay. I probably wouldv'e liked it better if I'd had less to read but I've got a long TBR list. Sort of makes a person finicky. The book was a little bit lighter than some but still urban fantasy. I didn't like all the atheism in the book. The constant pushing of atheism bothered me. Also, the lead character is a drug addict. This compares to the last book I read which was a Laurell K Hamilton. Her books are darker in tone. Anita Blake is a christian although she's conflicted ...more

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Jan 05, 2012 Jenny rated it liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy, series, demons, witches, magic-paranormal, mystery

I want to rate this as 3.5 Stars
It took me a while to get into this book. I don't quite know why, partly I think was the way some of the characters talked in the book, but once I got just over half way and I was getting the pattern of the language down it was a good read. I enjoyed it enough that I will pick up the next one.
It was an interesting take with the fact that Chess is a drug addicit, I had read that about her before I even picked up the book. She is still able to function but she is al ...more

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May 29, 2011 Michelle rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: michelle-mcm-s-2012-reading-list, read-february-2012, stacia-kane

I had issues with this book but saying that I liked the second half - well more than the first half.

I'm not sure about the language or names, it took me a while to get used to that and I'm not convinced I liked Chess at all. I didn't find anything attractive about Terrible or Doyle or...

She's a functioning Junkie. Plain & simple, although with the amount of drugs she puts away I'm surprised she didn't OD in the first half of the book let alone be able to pick locks and accomplish a fraction of ...more

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Jan 15, 2012 Samantha wickedshizuku Tolleson rated it it was ok

Shelves: reviewed, paranormal, 2012, not-manga, title-u

I just wasn't pleased with this book on a whole. The paranormal aspects were interesting, but the execution and hesitation of the plot was what killed it for me.

Yes really I do because I continued to read it. It was just that bad. It had absolutely fantastic apocalyptic concept, but the heroine of the series is just a mess. ...more

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