Title: Unholy Ghosts
Author: Stacia Kane
Publisher: Harper Voyager
ISBN: 978-0-00-73528-14
Pages: 346
Series: Downside Ghosts #1
Type: Adult Urban Fantasy
Source: Library
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Chess Putnam is a Church witch who investigates claims of hauntings, debunking
most and exorcising the few real ghosts she finds. Being haunted gets you
compensation from the Church so Chess is kept busy but now her drug habit has
caused her a problem. Her dealer wants Chess's debt paid in full by clearing a
ghost from his property which sounds simple enough. Until of course Chess
investigates and discovers this is no ordinary ghost...and that others don't
want the property cleared.
This is the first book in the Downside Ghosts
series and is a bit darker than the urban fantasy books I usually read. The
author has created an amazingly complex world full of hidden depths and the
reader is dropped straight in with no info dumping. It is based on the premise
that in October 1997 Haunting Week saw ghosts rise from their graves all over
the world and seek vengence on the living. By the end of the week, only a third
of the previous population remained alive and the Church of Real Truth had
stepped in to take control.
The plot is well developed with lots of
twists and turns, but I figured several twists out quite early on which dented
my enjoyment a bit. I was a bit thrown by the way some of the characters in the
book speak, for example "Right. You not there they miss you, aye?". It's a bit
hard to follow, especially when someone talks for a while so it distracts a bit
from the storyline.
I liked Chess as a character which surprised me as
she is a drug addict and spends a lot of time thinking about where her next fix
is coming from. Regardless of this she does manage to kick some serious butt and
it's nice to have a break from the standard goodie-two-shoes heroines. Terrible,
the enforcer for Chess's dealer, is brilliant and without him Chess would have
screwed up a lot more.
All in all, this was a good read and I'll probably pick up a copy of the next book Unholy Magic.
Plot: 8/10
Characters: 9/10
Ending: 9/10
Enjoyment: 8/10
Cover: 10/10
Overall: 44/50
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