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Necromancer A Novella Necromancer Series eBook Lish McBride

Maybe because the subtitle said it was a novella. It is a pretty decent, lighthearted short story, and then sneak peaks of two other books. So after I finished the short story I kept reading, thinking the new characters that were being introduced would relate back to what was going on in the first chapter, but then the book unexpectedly kicked me out just as the story was getting good. I didn't know I was starting another book, and now if I want to keep reading I have to buy another book. So. Read the first story, which is pretty cool. If you keep reading after that, you're being hooked. And the story only comprises twenty percent of this volume.


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Who would have know that Death could come in the form of a 10 year old girl? But that is exactly what Ashley is now, a harbinger of death, typically unseen by humans. The exception to this rule is her best friend, who sees her and communicates with her regularly. One day, he asks if he can watch her in action as a harbinger. But even watching Ashley do her thing does not change the fact that she is his best friend.

This whole thing was a little on the deceptive side. This book is labled as a novella. When going on word count, a novella is usually between 10,000 and 40,000 words. There is no way this was a novella. I am not even sure it was a novelette, most likely it was just a short story. And to even get to the short story, the plot of which I describe above, one must first read an excerpt from a full length novel. However, the excerpt is not, in my opinion, presented in a way that makes me want to read the novel, it is presented in a way that makes this whole "novella" confusing.

Posting excerpts in ebook form and calling them a free book download is somewhat surreptitious if you ask me. And I see it becoming a big trend on sites that support various e-readers. It tends to be ill received by those who do download and read the book. Sure, free is free, but when you are doing it to promote a book people need to pay for, you are somewhat shooting yourself in the foot. There are better, more forthcoming ways to do this that do not alienate a reader. Write a prequal. Or in this case, write a really good novella, an actual novella, and put the excerpt at the END of the ebook, not the beginning.

It made me sad that this turned out to be so disappointing. Both the short story and the excerpt did seem to have a lot of promise, but the whole experience of the book being not what it purported to be just sort of pushed me away as a reader.
The full length "Hold Me Closer, Necromancer" is currently available for for $7.12. The title alone is worth that as a reward for whoever came up with it, and forever ruined my view of Elton John.

This item is confusingly called "Necromancer". In fact it consists of a fine and interesting short story called "Death and Waffles", (which introduces the running character of Ash), and a sample excerpt from "Hold Me Closer, Necromancer".

The bottom line is that the short story is very good, the sample really will entice you to get the actual novel, and it's all free. Since I'm reasonably happy plowing through free not-so-good stuff, I'm especially happy to find free stuff that is very, very good.

It's good because the hero is a failing/confused/sort-of-a-sad-sack while still being funny, insightful and engaging. So many of these lead actors are just whiny or pathetic or lame, and it is refreshing to read the thoughts of a hero who is actually interesting. Judging from the sample, his crew of friends will be equally well-defined and entertaining. Judging from the short story, our author is also very good at action, secondary characters, descriptive prose, humorous by-play, and identifying the telling or touching detail.

Not bad, huh? A very worthy find, and definitely worth the bandwidth.
Death surrounds us and affects us all in a unique way. Lish McBride's Necromancer A Novella portrays death in an interesting manner, that like a previous death read, reminded me of Dead Like Me, particularly the short story "Death and Waffles."

"Death and Waffles" revolves around Ashley, a little, bubbly 10 year old girl who died of cancer and now works for Death with supernatural powers, and her childhood friend Matt, who is now in his late teens. A friendship forged from the love of Batman perseveres through death itself. This section could use a thorough copy-edit, particularly as there was quoted dialogue noted where it was actually narrative.

In the larger portion of the novella, "Dead Man's Party," we follow a fry cook named Sam, who apparently smells like the grave and blood and is as cold as death to those with sense keen on finding those things. The portion of the narrative that we encounter is primarily exposition that establishes the character well and sets up the plot, which developed quickly once there was some action...right at the end. This certainly felt incomplete and that there is far more that we have to learn about Sam and Death and everything that relates the two; however, with it being a novella, and noted as part of a larger work, Hold Me Closer Necromancer, I can understand how this particular compilation was meant to be a teaser for the larger work….and it was successful in making me want to know what happens next.
Maybe because the subtitle said it was a novella. It is a pretty decent, lighthearted short story, and then sneak peaks of two other books. So after I finished the short story I kept reading, thinking the new characters that were being introduced would relate back to what was going on in the first chapter, but then the book unexpectedly kicked me out just as the story was getting good. I didn't know I was starting another book, and now if I want to keep reading I have to buy another book. So. Read the first story, which is pretty cool. If you keep reading after that, you're being hooked. And the story only comprises twenty percent of this volume.