![]() ![]() Beyond the uneven pacing, other details interrupt the otherwise smooth flow of the story. She is bolstered by Evander’s sister, Meredy, for whom she develops romantic feelings. Odessa and her fellow necromancers must discover who is behind the sudden disappearance of Dead royalty and an influx of new Shades. The previously rollicking pace of the first-person, present-tense narration stagnates as Odessa turns to mind-numbing potions to cope with her grief, picking up steam again only many chapters later. ![]() When a Shade kills a master necromancer, Odessa and four others-including her boyfriend, ivory-skinned Evander-enter the Deadlands to avenge him. Any Dead glimpsed even in part by the living become predatory creatures called Shades. These spirits become Dead-ordinary members of society but for the protective shrouds they wear. A necromancer must overcome grief and protect the kingdom of Karthia from monstrous Shades.īrown-skinned Odessa of Grenwyr travels to the Deadlands to retrieve spirits of the recently deceased and raise them. ![]()
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