Item: City of Ghosts
Rating: 5.00
Author: linda_un-conventional-bookworms

by Stacia Kane

The third book in this gritty, sexy urban fantasy trilogy.

If you liked the compelling characters in 50 Shades of Grey, you’ll love the Downside Ghosts series.

Rogue spirits and psychopomps are terrorising people, and now someone is planning to open the gates to the City of Ghosts and unleash the dead on humanity.

Faced with her greatest challenge yet, Chess has to travel to the spirit city to finally lay all her ghosts to rest…

Chess Putnam has a lot on her plate. Mangled human corpses have started to show up on the streets of Downside, and Chess’s bosses at the Church of Real Truth have ordered her to team up with the ultra-powerful Black Squad agency to crack the grisly case.

Chess is under a binding spell that threatens death if she talks about the investigation, but the city’s most notorious crime boss – and Chess’s drug dealer – gets wind of her new assignment and insists on being kept informed. If that isn’t bad enough, a sinister street vendor appears to have information Chess needs. Only he’s not telling what he knows, or what it all has to do with the vast underground City of Eternity.

Now Chess will have to navigate killer wraiths and a lot of seriously nasty magic – all while coping with some not-so-small issues of her own. And the only man she can trust to help her through it all has every reason to want her dead.

I love, love, love this series! Chess is a mess, but she's so human, and always trying to do the best she can whith what she has to do it with. Terrible is broken, but they just might be able to heal each other; at least a little bit.

This was so fast paced I'm almost out of breath having read it! And there were so many different things going on it was hard to wrap my brain around it. Chess had stuff going on in all directions, and she had no idea who to trust or who not to trust. In the end, she really had to count on herself, Terrible and Lex; and wasn't seeing them all work together a total blast?

There are loads of quotes in my updates, and I could add much more. I think those kind of quotes is part of why I love this series so much - the characters seem so real because they are human, have flaws and know that they have flaws. I wish Chess would try to do something about her drug addiction, though, but then again, without it she wouldn't be the Chess I love. And it's the one big secret she's keeping from the church as well.

Off to read Sacrificial Magic now! So glad it just was released :)

City of Ghosts (Downside Ghosts, #3) (Chess Putnam, #3)

by Stacia Kane

Reviewed by Linda on Mar 29, 2012

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