Stephen Blackmoore's dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.
Necromancer is such an ugly word, but it's a title Eric Carter is stuck with.
He sees ghosts, talks to the dead. He's turned it into a lucrative career putting troublesome spirits to rest, sometimes taking on even more dangerous things. For a fee, of course.
When he left LA fifteen years ago, he thought he'd never go back. Too many bad memories. Too many people trying to kill him.
But now his sister's been brutally murdered and Carter wants to find out why.
Was it the gangster looking to settle a score? The ghost of a mage he killed the night he left town? Maybe it's the patron saint of violent death herself, Santa Muerte, who's taken an unusually keen interest in him.
Carter's going to find out who did it, and he's going to make them pay.
I was itching to find a new UF series to read and well, found it! Very well paced. The story is extremely focused on the MC (Eric), there's very little development of the other characters in the book, but as it is told from a first person pov it's not detrimental. I'll definitely be checking out the next book, and really hope that it does a little world building, the rules of magic and whatnot were just hinted at, maybe to avoid too much exposition, but it would be cool know how everything works a little better.
