Christina W. (knic) reviewed on 7/2/2011 + 20 more book reviews

This book is a bit hard for me to rate. Overall, I enjoyed it. It was fast paced, entertaining, and I wasn't bored at all by it.

Chess is the main character, and she's a standard heroine for an urban fantasy book. She has the token mysterious background, abuse, and issues with trust, abandonment...blah, blah, blah. The unique twist with her is that she's a big time drug user. She's hooked on multiple drugs and literally spends most of the entire book popping a pill, smoking, or sniffing something. This actually could have been a very unique strength in the story, but ended up being irritating and lacked consistency. Chess is leading a double life. She has a respectable job at the Church, but keeps hidden her drug use and the fact that she owes a lot of money to her dealer. Anyone hooked on that many drugs and type of drugs she was hooked on would find it impossible to keep secret! How could her co workers not know something was wrong? That kind of drug use would absolutley ravage a body. On top of that, she rarely sleeps and eats mostly junk, because she spends most of her money on drugs. It wasn't like she was only hooked on a couple pills! This was my major beef with the story...it just didn't come together for me.

Lex was kind of a redundant character. He's basically a handsome version of Terrible, so other than offering up a steamy scene, I'm not sure what his purpose was.

One other thing...if an author is going to cross the boundary into the land of ICK, please offer a bit more explanation. Why exactly, is menstrual blood so powerful?

I'm not sure if I'll invest the time reading the next books in the series.

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