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The Necromancer [book]
[9781591460718]

$14.95

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by Joan Baker

Date Added: Thursday 22 October, 2009

This was an enjoyable read. I enjoy horror, usually vampires and such, but this had witchcraft and demons enough to keep my nose glued to the pages. Almost a bit too graphic sometimes for me, but just this side of being too much. It was a fascinating story, which grabs you from the start, and doesn't let go even after the book is finished. It was good enough for me to be inspired to write this review. I highly recommend it to lovers of a good horror story.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

by Sylence Campbell

Date Added: Tuesday 18 November, 2008

I enjoyed this twist on the Witch Trials. It was dark, and deviant. Twists and turns and pure wickedness right and left. What is going to happen next??

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

by The Yaz

Date Added: Thursday 29 May, 2008

I ordered this book before I left for vacation so that I may have something to read on the plane ride over. I am so glad that I brought it along with me. Kevin Dunn's ability to make you feel like if you are in the center of the war between good and evil is so great that it's almost scary.

His vivid descriptions and storytelling are a gift bestowed upon the reader that you feel it a sin to put the book down before ending the entire book.

There's such an array of characters: Demons, spirit guardians or ghost, zombies, executioners, town folk who claim to follow the Lord but at the same moment cry for the blood of their neighbors and the list continues to grow.

Over all in all, I was excited to open my book and with each turn of the page I felt the hair on my back stand on end. As I read, I got a feeling of overwhelming satisfaction knowing that something unexpected was going to happen. For the first time reading a horror novel I can truly say there was not a moment when the story got boring. The action is always there and just when you think the climax is over... the suspense rises again .... Brilliant read and a superb job for a first time novelist. Well done. Bravo.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

by Cindy Leonard

Date Added: Friday 18 April, 2008

The Necromancer was a very interesting book. I was drawn into the story from the start. It takes place in and around Salem, Massachusetts during the madness of the witchcraft trials. It focuses on the life and loves of the Reverend Ambrose Blayne, a man out for blood, revenge for his first and best love, Odara. She was burnt at the stake as a witch, and so, that is the form of Blayne's revenge. He is in Salem to generate a witch panic and create as much bloodshed as possible in honor of his lost love. Unfortunately for him, his newest love, Susanna Harrington is an accused witch, locked up in the Salem Village Jail. He kidnaps her out of the jail and takes her with him to his secret/hidden lair where he practices the black arts that keep the Salem frenzy going.

It is a strongly written book. It is a darkly written book. There are demons, sabbats, bacchanalias, blood and guts, and even a ghost or two. The tone is a bit formal, and it gets a little graphic in places, but it is appropriate to the story. I do think the credibility is stretched a bit when Odara shows up near the end and is attacked as viciously as any of Blayne's enemies.

All in all, though, a very good read. This book kept me entertained until the end.

Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!]

by J. Wells "Oderus99"

Date Added: Wednesday 09 April, 2008

I just finished The Necromancer after having met Kevin Dunn at HorrorFind Weekend and having visited Salem, MA last summer. The book uses the Salem witch trials as a backdrop, not enough though in my opinion. The book puts an all new twist on the witch trials in that a local preacher is a Necromancer/warlock who causes all the havoc. The book focuses mostly on one story between the warlock and an accused witch. Dunn tends to jump around and makes for a confusing read at times, but overall it was a good read in that it kept me entertained and not bored, which is all I can ask for in a book. I recommend the book to anyone who is interested in the Salem Witch trials or knows nothing about them and wants to learn a little about what went on keeping in mind the book is fiction based in and during the witch trials.

Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!]

by Reader Views (Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson)

Date Added: Tuesday 08 April, 2008

Kevin Dunn’s “The Necromancer” is set in the extremely tumultuous times at the end of the seventeenth century. The year is 1692 and the infamous witch-hunt has begun in Salem, Massachusetts. People are falling ill and dying of smallpox. Tempers are running high. Neighbors are telling on neighbors, reporting them for real and, much more often, for imaginary crimes.

Two unlikely people are thrown together – the very pure and innocent Susanna Harrington, a young woman from Salem, and the Reverend Ambrose Blayne, a man with a violent and unhappy past and a dark secret. He is ‘The Necromancer’ – a very dangerous and very powerful warlock. His seduction of the pure, naive Susanna will lead the young woman down an incredibly vile, sinister route.

While the characters in this book are undoubtedly formidable, the sheer saturation with evil and brutality makes them too distant to be believable. Kevin Dunn’s writing is occasionally stiff and feels overwhelming at times. Sometimes use of more straightforward words and phrases makes for less laborious reading; and austere is not necessarily boring. On the other hand, I found author’s insights into the human soul and the low resistance of most people to foolishness and iniquity very enlightening.

Kevin Dunn’s “The Necromancer” is certainly a powerful book, but unfortunately too dark for my taste. While I am certain it would appeal to the lovers of dark fiction and horror stories, the very graphic and vivid descriptions of the orgies and rituals, the incessant evil and cruelty as well as the pervading sense of malevolence throughout the book did not endear it to me. That does not mean that the book is not a good one, it simply means that I did not manage to connect with it. But if you are a horror lover, by all means go for it – this is a truly dark and truly scary one!

Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!]