• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Stacia Kane’s Website
• List Price: $7.99 US/$9.99 CDN
• Publisher: Del Rey; Original edition (May 25, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345515579
• ISBN-13: 978-0345515575

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The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully tattooed witch and freewheeling ghost hunter. She’s got a real talent for banishing the wicked dead. But Chess is keeping a dark secret: She owes a lot of money to a murderous drug lord named Bump, who wants immediate payback in the form of a dangerous job that involves black magic, human sacrifice, a nefarious demonic creature, and enough wicked energy to wipe out a city of souls. Toss in lust for a rival gang leader and a dangerous attraction to Bump’s ruthless enforcer, and Chess begins to wonder if the rush is really worth it. Hell, yeah.

In 1997, the Ghosts had a kind of Apocolyps & killed almost all of the World’s population. Now everyone relies on the Church of Real Truth, not Churches of the past. Chess’ job is to check out those who claim they have Ghosts in their houses, if they do indeed have a haunting, The Church will pay them once the Debunker has gotten rid of the ghost. Unholy Ghosts focuses on Chess who is a ghost debunker for the Church of Real Truth & a drug addict with a debt to pay.

Chess’ dealer, Bump, has a job for her that will wipe out her drug debt but it requires her to banish whatever is haunting an old airport he wants to reopen. But it isn’t that simple, there’s a rival gang who want Chess to leave whatever is there alone & they’ll pay off her debt to Bump & supply her with free drugs. If only that were all of her problems, it’s not such a simple job to banish a ghost especially when the is dark magic at play that could kill them all.

Unholy Ghosts is the first book in Stacia Kane’s Downside Series & it was phenomenal! It is one of the most grittiest, in your face Urban Fantasy’s I’ve ever read & I loved it.

It’s not often that I get so excited after reading a book, that I jump on the computer in the middle of the night to type a review. Unholy Ghosts did that for me. From Chess’ drug addiction to her sorta kinda attraction to Bump’s enforcer Terrible, I couldn’t put the book down. When I finished, I had to sit & think about what I read, it’s one of those books. It’s non-stop action, just when you think someones good or bad, your world gets turned upside down. I had thought I knew who was bad, but mid-book Stacia flips the script & you’re right back at the beginning. Chess’ life hasn’t been easy either, she’s been through some hardknocks but she keeps going…even if she is really dependant on her drug of choice, Cepts. Then there is Terrible, who doesn’t speak much but when he does everyone stops to pay attention. Can I just say, I really hope Chess & Terrible get their issues sorted out! I love Terrible too much to see him disappear or not show up in the rest of the series.

The world in Unholy Ghosts is crafted unlike any-other, where everyone is at the mercy of The Church of Truth from the Educated to the Under-Educated. If you don’t follow (for lack of a better term) then you have no one to protect you from the Ghosts. Even the language they speak is just so different, you find yourself reading a sentence out loud & grinning at the cadence of it. It rolls off your tounge like a mix of patois & cajun, with some street spice. There’s just so much detail to this book & it’s so complex, but I can’t go to much into detail lest I ruine it for you, but it was an excellent read & one I will recommend for months! Thank the goddesses the next book in the series comes out in July, I don’t think I could wait any longer!

Stacia’s previous series (Demons) is nothing at all like Unholy Ghosts, so if you aren’t a fan of Paranormal Romance & find yourself liking darker Urban Fantasy’s or Horror, this one is totally for you. If you loved the Demon series, you’ll appreciate Unholy Ghosts even more, I promise you that! If you read one new Urban Fantasy series, make it Unholy Ghosts.