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The Necromancer is an adventure through an old school fantasy world, and I enjoyed it immensely. For me it was a trip down memory lane that allowed me to revisit character types and creatures I had not seen in years. I often came across particular monsters and races that immediately brought forth memories of adventures I shared with friends at those late night Dungeons & Dragons binges parties.

The story mostly follows the path of a young mage who is intricately tied to the title character, the Necromancer. As the Necromancer drives his undead army forward, there is more than one surprising turn awaiting him and the young mage. The cast also included a good number of minor characters that caught my interest and gave me the occasional chuckle. As for the style of the writing, I found it consistently action-centered, and this worked well to hold my interest throughout the book.

As noted in other reviews, the book does contain some technical errors. However, the author mentions in the preface that the book was written when he was just fourteen years old. For a work by someone of that age, this is truly outstanding. I wish i had had such talent when I was that young.


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The Necromancer New Edition eBook Alex Stargazer Reviews

"I'm the necromancer. I'm the being forgotten; the love destroyed by the ambitions of a fool."

Linaera is at mage school in Renas, when news comes that the necromancer has killed a powerful Silver Mage called Eiliara. Her guardian, the senior mage, sends out a party of Battle Mages to find and defeat the necromancer and insists Linaera goes with them, even though she is still only an apprentice, as it is her destiny. So she sets out with Perrien, Sasha, Harold, Jake, Stella and John.

Meanwhile Great Mage Nateldorth is investigating kidnappings and mysterious, stormy weather in the city of Dresh with the help of his criminal friends.

Neshvetal, the necromancer of the title, sits on his throne and is served by his young apprentice Leira, obsequious and snivelling minions and his army of undead.

This is classic, old-school fantasy - a party is gathered and sets out to go and save the world from evil. There are mage schools and thieves guilds, places called things like 'The Empty Plains' and plenty of Dark Magic. There are forests full of elves, and ent-like ancient treefolk called Wose. There are ancient prophecies, ominous signposts warning 'Enter at ye own peril' and magical swamps which suddenly appear. There are mysterious tomes such as 'A Necromancer's Guide to Making Hexes." There are taverns and people use words like 'mayhaps' and everyone who is not a mage or a noble is a peasant, and X marks the spot on the map our heroes follow.

It has drama, romance, tragedy, monsters and good versus evil.

The preface tells us that this book was written by a fourteen year old and as such it is a remarkable effort. Not many children that age could write a full length novel with a structured plot and it suggests that this is a young person with a potentially great literary career ahead of them.

But not with this book as it stands.

"At least I get to do something useful, she thought. I really am sick of doing nothing."

This is not an easy thing to say, but this book is not well written. The story itself is fairly solid and I enjoyed it, even if the end stretched my credulity a little past its limits and the frequent use of ungarnished tropes grated at times.

Pace is poorly managed. Much of the book consists of long passages where not much happens at all for pages at a time. The author describes a 'journey of ceaseless monotony' and this book often is, whether someone is rambling on about simplistic philosophy or rambling slowly through mountain passes. There are only the occasional bursts of interest and action to hold the reader's attention.

Language use is poor. Past and present tense get mixed and matched at will. Words and phrases are misused or inappropriately over complex, as if the author is straining to be sophisticated and literary. But it comes across as over-worked and often slightly comic "Linaera scratched her forehead. A nervous tick had made its roost there...". At the other extreme we get 'he was a dick' and 'you muppet', which stand out as equally unfitting to the overall mood of the story.

Characterisation is poor. The descriptions we get of the people our heroes meet made me think of a table-top role-play session, in fact come to think of it there was a lot of the RPG feel to the whole story. We are told someone is brave and another is clever rather than seeing them do much to demonstrate those qualities. The author even begins to refer to the party as, well, 'the party'. Even the main characters come over as very little more than two-dimensional variants on classic fantasy stereotypes.

"Time went past, along with its companion, distance. The landscape gradually changed as the characters continued on."

I think it is really sad that the author decided to hit the publish button on this book. He is clearly a young man with great talent, but that talent is nothing close to being realised as yet and needs a lot of work. As a result the amount of bad completely overwhelms the pretty good YA fantasy story which he is trying to tell. All that said, it is an excellent book for a young teen to have written and if he learns and matures from this base line of raw potential in storytelling, I believe he will be a truly awesome writer in a few years time.
A teenage magic-wielder, Linaera, comes into her own in this dark fantasy, adventure novel.
It begins with the murder of a Silver Mage by the title character in a distant part of this mythical land of Arachadia. A group of well-trained Battle Mages are sent out on an expedition with Linaera to find the necromancer. The search party leaves their magic school accompanied by a non-magical guide.
Their journey takes them to villages in the mountains where they encounter all manner of undead creatures which attempt to capture or kill them. Thus sets up the basic quest section of the story. But the author has layered in a number of twists to keep the reader guessing what’s around the corner. Some of the turns were a bit more predictable than others.
There are a host of colorful characters who enter and exit the main action at various parts of the story. Including an elf named Derien who doesn’t care much for humans. So naturally after rescuing an injured Linaera when she flees the Necromancer, he falls for her.

In the book the author has a habit of using parentheses around subordinate clauses that makes it seem like he’s giving the reader a juicy tidbit about the character or making a snarky remark. I found it rather distracting at first and discovered that the practice diminished as the story went on. I didn’t hate it, but it was a bit annoying.
The story is good. It did seem to go on an on though. I think after the last big battle there was ample momentum for an ending. But it seemed that Linaera had yet another ‘challenge’ to complete which ended up feeling rushed. That’s the only reason I mentioned it.
While I enjoyed the changes in POV, there were a couple of chapters where the tenses changed too which as a reader took me out of the story. And there were also some minor proofing issues.
Technical issues aside, it’s a well developed tale with lots of interesting battles and events to keep readers interested and rooting for Linaera and her comrades.
The Necromancer is an adventure through an old school fantasy world, and I enjoyed it immensely. For me it was a trip down memory lane that allowed me to revisit character types and creatures I had not seen in years. I often came across particular monsters and races that immediately brought forth memories of adventures I shared with friends at those late night Dungeons & Dragons binges parties.

The story mostly follows the path of a young mage who is intricately tied to the title character, the Necromancer. As the Necromancer drives his undead army forward, there is more than one surprising turn awaiting him and the young mage. The cast also included a good number of minor characters that caught my interest and gave me the occasional chuckle. As for the style of the writing, I found it consistently action-centered, and this worked well to hold my interest throughout the book.

As noted in other reviews, the book does contain some technical errors. However, the author mentions in the preface that the book was written when he was just fourteen years old. For a work by someone of that age, this is truly outstanding. I wish i had had such talent when I was that young.