A review by stevenikaye
The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman

4.0

I was commenting to a friend after finishing this book that I'm tempted to only read authors who are also poets (James Sallis counts, as someone who's translated poetry). The book has so much of what I find too much recent urban fantasy lacks - a true sense of place, well-rounded characters that act like adults, antagonists that are truly terrifying. The magic is inventive and sketched out nicely, the plot has some nice subversions of reader expectations, and while I felt one resolution was somewhat pat (if a nice illustration of Chekhov's gun), it certainly came at a real cost.