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A review by cosmith2015
Finn Fancy Necromancy by Randy Henderson
3.0
This fulfills my "read a book published this year" book for BookRiots read harder challenge.
Overall:
The description of the book along with the name and cover is what caught my eye. Necromancy combined with a interesting family (which includes a mad scientist) and there's a mystery to solve? Sounds awesome. This book had many good things about it, but what made me give it a three star rather than a four was the writing.
Good:
Randy Henderson takes a /classic fairytale/fantasy creatures and gives them a lovely spin. Instead of the classic "I'm a white mage or a dark mage" or " I work with elements" he does five types of magic: sorcery, necromancy, wizardry, thaumaturge (wrong spelling..), and alchemy. I really like how the gnomes were the black market runners and how they communicated. I also appreciated how feybloods feed off of memories while in the Other Realm.
The characters were decent, each definitely had their own personality and depth to them. I don't think I really had a favorite. None of them didn't particularly draw me to them.
Bad:
The one thing that made this book a three star was how the characters spoke. Most of them didn't sound like real people. Zeke constantly saying fool. Heather and Dawn really annoyed me as well. Especially the way Dawn treated Finn when he got back... Just randomly kissing him. I just feel like a lot of the interactions between Finn and these two ladies was fake.
Once again the plot was rushed..Three days for all of this to happen? Maybe give him a week.. Wait awhile before he finds Felicity's body.. I also felt like it was tugged a lot in different directions and it was hard to determine where the characters were going next and who the "bad guys" were.
Overall:
The description of the book along with the name and cover is what caught my eye. Necromancy combined with a interesting family (which includes a mad scientist) and there's a mystery to solve? Sounds awesome. This book had many good things about it, but what made me give it a three star rather than a four was the writing.
Good:
Randy Henderson takes a /classic fairytale/fantasy creatures and gives them a lovely spin. Instead of the classic "I'm a white mage or a dark mage" or " I work with elements" he does five types of magic: sorcery, necromancy, wizardry, thaumaturge (wrong spelling..), and alchemy. I really like how the gnomes were the black market runners and how they communicated. I also appreciated how feybloods feed off of memories while in the Other Realm.
The characters were decent, each definitely had their own personality and depth to them. I don't think I really had a favorite. None of them didn't particularly draw me to them.
Bad:
The one thing that made this book a three star was how the characters spoke. Most of them didn't sound like real people. Zeke constantly saying fool. Heather and Dawn really annoyed me as well. Especially the way Dawn treated Finn when he got back... Just randomly kissing him. I just feel like a lot of the interactions between Finn and these two ladies was fake.
Once again the plot was rushed..Three days for all of this to happen? Maybe give him a week.. Wait awhile before he finds Felicity's body.. I also felt like it was tugged a lot in different directions and it was hard to determine where the characters were going next and who the "bad guys" were.