Review: Downside is my favorite fictional world
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2013
This may be the first story chronologically, but it will probably be most appreciated by people who are already familiar with the elaborate and fascinating world of Chess, the amazing and flawed Church Witch, and her world in Downside.Seeing Chess prior to her addiction taking control was a little heartbreaking -- I wanted to grab her by the shoulders, shake her, and hug her.  Plot is one of the stars of Kane's work (we're thankfully spared pages and pages of relationship angst while characters forget that they're supposed to be solving a mystery, such an annoying feature in some other urban fantasy) and this novella is no exception.  It's a novella-size plot, but it is fleshed out enough to please readers.I can't wait to get back to the present with Chess (and Terrible -- who doesn't make an appearance until the very end of this story).