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Lorena
May 09, 2016 rated it really liked it
Way darker than your typical urban fantasy. Our heroine is an unapologetic drug addict, and the people she associates with are not terribly upstanding citizens either. It makes for a gritty but compelling book.
Wealhtheow
Feb 23, 2013 rated it it was ok
Chess is a Debunker, a witch trained to detect and dismiss ghosts. When her drug dealer threatens to cut her off if she doesn't purify a local unused airport for him, she gets embroiled in a dangerous chain of events.

And I don't caaaaaaaaaaare because Chess is just a total trainwreck. Every single time she makes a decision, she makes the worst choice possible. She gets into debt with every criminal character she meets, does drugs instead of sleeping, avoids getting medical treatment for no appar
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Michelle
the urban fantasy shelves at the bookstore are pretty full lately, and separating out something unique from the piles of same-ol can be pretty tricky.

this is most definitely not the same-ol stuff.

the world as we knew it is dead and gone. after a group of people who'd been studying magic were the only ones able to save the population of earth from a mass uprising of murderous ghosts, that group became the church of truth and supplanted all the world's religions. Chess grew up in a world protect
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Morgan
Jul 15, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 5-stars, 2011
Mir
Aug 21, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: mystery, fantasy, ghosts
Destiny
Apr 06, 2016 marked it as to-read
Adrienne
Jun 21, 2016 marked it as to-read
Sonia
Jan 08, 2020 added it
Shelves: urban-fantasy
steen
Jul 10, 2023 rated it liked it