Scan barcode
A review by sam_riccio
Amy of the Necromancers by Jimena I. Novaro
4.0
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
One of my favorite things about reading is writing notes down as I go, to see if I can get anything about the storie right in my head before it plays out and to write down my favorite aspects, and parts that made me happy.
What could I say about 'Amy of the Necromancers' ?
I can say that I didn't see any of this coming really; the ending, how the characters would react to everything going on.
It was relatable in parts, as a young person with depression I understood what it was like for Amy to dissociate as often as she did, to read the same words that my own therapist has said back to me when I was panicking, it was good to see a character talk to a therapist, talk about going to see a therapist when so many people find it hard to go to one.
One thing that made me happy was how similar Amy and her friends were to actual teens: going out to concerts, gossiping, smoking weed in the woods. It all gave the story a good grounding sense to it when there was another level of chaos going on. The romance was cute, and slipped in easily with the story. The LGBT+ representation in this was another big factor into me liking this.
By not making a big deal of someone being non-binary or a WLW but having them reinforce that this is who they are shows how natural this is to people who aren't in the community, and its the sort of casual part of life that I love to see in novels.
My one complaint is that I felt that some of the chapters could have been condensed together to make a longer chapter but still have everything in it be there. Some of the plot twists made sense, some of them i didn't see coming at all - and I feel like Amy could be read as an unreliable narrator, due to the dissociation and how easily she seemed to bring things up that weren't previously mentioned.
The open ending suited the central theme of not knowing what's going to happen next, and I love that because we don't know what's going to happen next in our own lives and Amy has so much to do and to think about in the future of her life but she can't know what it will be! I just think it was a neat way to end it.
If this were to be a series, I would be happy to read about the other sisters, or anyone else in the family since they're all so unique.
One of my favorite things about reading is writing notes down as I go, to see if I can get anything about the storie right in my head before it plays out and to write down my favorite aspects, and parts that made me happy.
What could I say about 'Amy of the Necromancers' ?
I can say that I didn't see any of this coming really; the ending, how the characters would react to everything going on.
It was relatable in parts, as a young person with depression I understood what it was like for Amy to dissociate as often as she did, to read the same words that my own therapist has said back to me when I was panicking, it was good to see a character talk to a therapist, talk about going to see a therapist when so many people find it hard to go to one.
One thing that made me happy was how similar Amy and her friends were to actual teens: going out to concerts, gossiping, smoking weed in the woods. It all gave the story a good grounding sense to it when there was another level of chaos going on. The romance was cute, and slipped in easily with the story. The LGBT+ representation in this was another big factor into me liking this.
By not making a big deal of someone being non-binary or a WLW but having them reinforce that this is who they are shows how natural this is to people who aren't in the community, and its the sort of casual part of life that I love to see in novels.
My one complaint is that I felt that some of the chapters could have been condensed together to make a longer chapter but still have everything in it be there. Some of the plot twists made sense, some of them i didn't see coming at all - and I feel like Amy could be read as an unreliable narrator, due to the dissociation and how easily she seemed to bring things up that weren't previously mentioned.
The open ending suited the central theme of not knowing what's going to happen next, and I love that because we don't know what's going to happen next in our own lives and Amy has so much to do and to think about in the future of her life but she can't know what it will be! I just think it was a neat way to end it.
If this were to be a series, I would be happy to read about the other sisters, or anyone else in the family since they're all so unique.