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Title: Dull and lifeless
Review: This book reminded me a lot of Moorcock's Elric series. It's extremely brief, the characters are lifeless, the world is poorly described, and it takes itself way too seriously.The protagonist, Paul Formain, is so cold and lifeless that he makes Elric seem emotional by comparison.One expects a sci-fi novel to have lifeless and cliched characters, but there's usually a cool interesting scientific idea to counter the lack of character development and story. Necromancer has neither. In fact, it's more of a fantasy story than true sci-fi. The characters have magical abilities which are never explained in any kind of logical or scientific way.Now I have no problem with fantasy, but as a fantasy novel Necromancer doesn't hold up either. A fantasy story should have interesting characters and a well developed fantasy world. Necromancer has none of this.I really have nothing good to say about this book.
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