Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane

Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Urban fantasy about a ghost debunker in an alternate post apocalypse universe where no one believes in God anymore, but everyone believes in the afterlife.

Oh, man, so many bad decisions. That was the best part for me – our narrator works for the successor to the church, but spends this entire book taking orders from her dealer (yes, like that), and then his competitor, and then it gets worse. She's making genuinely awful decisions, is what I'm saying. As opposed to the usual run of urban fantasy bad decisions, which are more like oh woe is me, I have to decide to save the world or save my lover, what will I doooooo?. Yawn. Whereas this chick is more like yeah, so, I've gotta take care of this ghost threat or else my dealer will cut me off and fuck my shit up. Jesus, where's my stash? I plan to keep reading almost entirely to see what life-destroyingly awful thing she ends up doing next. Aside from all the speed and the uppers and the downers, I mean.

Could've done with less boyfriend, honestly, but then again it's not like that was actually romantic, since it was just another set of awful, awful decisions.

…I'm totally not selling this, am I? Look, it's standard urban fantasy but with a way more fucked up narrator, whose fucked uppedness – her assorted addictions, her rotten upbringing – are not at all glorified or sexy or meant to be a lesson. Or fixable. They're just part of who she is. It was surprisingly nice, actually.




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