It was okay I guess. Main character was meh. Kind of lame that bumping a line of speed is what saves the day. Oh boy! I mean for a unlikable character she could at least kick ass or something, instead she just gets beat up repeatably and is usually wrong about all her deductions of who is the bad...
so I'm not sure what to say. it's definitely something. I liked the world building, but it is a very gloomy world. Therefore it is difficult to read, i think with such a setting need some funny lines to make it lighter. Also fore the fist 100 pages I was really bored, neither the story nor the ch...
Wow, this book is really good; the best so fare in this series. Here Chess finally starts to learn from her mistakes and slowly changing. It is very capturing to follow her when she slowly starts to deal with thing.Also Terrible reapers just when you start to miss him. I have to admit that I fell...
Chess once again finds herself investigating potential ghostly occurrences in the mean streets of Downside; Bump's prostitutes are being murdered in quite a grisly fashion and from all appearances, it looks like a ghost is behind it all. Chess also finds herself in a bind when Lex and Slobag ask ...
After the promise of the first book, and the quality writing of the first couple of shorts, this is a bitter disappointment. The writing feels choppy. Jumping around. Odd, random, disjointed transitions that make me feeling like pages and whole chapters have been ripped out of the book.And what's...
F*ing S...By the time this series ends (if that ever happens) I'll be reduced into a blubering emotional mess.I'd never thought it would be possible to like and feel so much for a couple like Chess and Terrible, but I simply can't avoid *the feels* when either of them admits that the other one is...
This was so much fun to read. I haven't read many books with demons in them so I can't say if this is typical fair in a demon story but it was dark, creepy, gory with lots of demon politics playing out and was still as sexy as hell.The story continues from the last but we find Meg wrestling with ...
I wasn't sure what to expect from this prequel novella in the Downside Ghosts series, all I knew was that it was darker than Stacia Kane's other series, which I loved. It also came highly acclaimed by trusted Goodread friends, so I decided to give it a try. Now, after reading it, I'm not so sure ...
I think Stacia Kane should seriously rethink her strategy. Not all books must've detective work. It's just boring and stiff. And it really drags the story down. It seems a bit early for Terrible to have such strong feelings for Chess and he was a bit too mushy. I don't know. I kind of wished I di...
This is a classic short story; not a short (beginning/middle/end) version of what a regular story should be, but just a snapshot of a day in the life of a person living in the Downside-Ghosts universe.It features Maddie Carver (duh), who was part of the pre-BT Church on the very day that Haunted...
Their breath barely had a chance to return to normal when headlights flooded the front windows and the sound of an engine idling outside made her lift her head. What the fuck? Oh, no. Terrible looked at her, the same thought reflected in his eyes. But he was faster, leaping off the beanbag and pe...
she started, then stopped. Oh, right. “Most Jewish people aren’t testifying about the power of Jesus.” “Correct. So unless she converted and forgot to remove her jewelry, we could have a problem here. You couldn’t read them?” She shook her head. “The room felt empty. And not even empty. More ...
Oh, he was an asshole. And she was in just the kind of annoyed mood to want to provoke him. “Mr. Li, how lovely to see you again.” She smiled her biggest, fakest smile and turned to face him, still holding her money in her hand. He glanced at it, then up at the slot on the machine. “Miss Putnam.”...
A long porch, a tidy lawn, sleepy-eyed windows watching the world go by. Calm. A direct contrast to how Chess felt, which was like someone had wired her up to an outlet of electricity and misery. She hadn’t asked Jillian and Elder Griffin about the names she’d written down...
Not that color.” Megan paused with the lipstick halfway to her mouth. “What’s wrong with it?” Getting ready for this stupid party was hard enough without Malleus, Maleficarum, and Spud standing behind her watching. She wished they wouldn’t. The long, thick sleeves of her heavy robe kept catching ...
The wall and trees, in turn, hid a couple of guard posts, with armed men watching the street and the wide green lawn. Two towers at opposite ends of the sprawling cream-colored mansion held more guards and guns and a direct line to a private “security company” that was more like an army. It was a...