Review: 4 1/2 stars!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2014
I'm not usually a fan of novellas, or short stories, unless they are part of a series that I follow.  This one is.  It's actually part 5.5 of Stacia Kane's Downside Ghosts series.  So I really don't think that this one is a stand-alone book.  I think the reason I enjoyed it so much was because I already knew the characters well before going into it.So Chess and Terrible are at a junkyard trying to get some free car parts when they are approached by a creepy old woman who wants money for the parts.  Although she was never there before, they assume she's a new inhabitant and decide to follow her to pay for the parts.  Big mistake.  It was a ploy and the woman wants to use them to resurrect her dead husband.Stacia Kane cracks me up.  I love her style of writing, and her characters personalities.  Chess is a drug addict, but I'm always routing for her and like her none-the-less.  Here's a little excerpt that I enjoyed."Just as Chess figured, Vincent's body - well, it wasn't much of a body at that point, just a skeleton covered in scraps of fabric and scraps of things Chess didn't want to think about - lay at Mrs. Hudson's feet.  A pillow supported its skull.  Around it several items were arranged like afterlife tokens at a Viking funeral:  a wallet, a pair of worn tennis shoes, what looked like baseball cards, a pair of socks and some underwear.  Very personal, so very powerful.  One of the items was a hammer, which was awesome because what they really needed was for Vincent's ghost to have a deadly bludgeoning tool within easy reach. (Location 395 of 555 on Kindle)"Awesome right?  So if you're already a Stacia Kane fan, definitely pick it up.  And if you haven't read anything by her yet, try the first book in the series, Unholy Ghosts.My Rating:  4  out of 5 stars~Pam*****I received this book free from Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.*****