Necromancer

Spellmonger, Book 10

By: Terry Mancour

Narrated by: John Lee

Company’s coming!

Just when Baron Minalan the Spellmonger figured out there was a slim chance to restore his mind-shattered wife, Alya (if he's willing to journey to the undercaverns of Olum Seheri, the lair of Korbal the Necromancer), things start to go awry: not only does Prince Tavard, his unloved liege lord, decide to conduct an official state visit to Sevendor on pilgrimage to the Everfire on the Briga's feast day, but a mysterious seamage appears at his door with an intriguing offer from the Sea Folk who rule Callidore: They want to buy snowstone. An entire mountain of it.

Between feuding factions of Alka Alon and the contentious nobility of his own kingdom, Minalan is already in arcane intrigue up to his pointy hat, but when the foremost wizard of the age has problems, he also has resources. Before the pilgrimage concludes it sets mighty actions in their courses, and even the gods elect to intervene publicly in Minalan's life.

Minalan realizes that he has little choice but to consider an impossible quest into the heart of his enemy's realm, to the caverns of the dead, themselves, if he is to resolve the many conflicts in play. He must recover an ancient artefact of the Sea Folk known as the Handmaiden, and in order to do so he will have to organize the most audacious raid on the most horrific foe in humanity's history on Callidore! Who else but Minalan the Spellmonger has the magic stones to challenge the undead might of the Necromancer!

©2017 Terry Mancour (P)2020 Podium Publishing

With all respect to those that wax derogatorily...

Those that don't appreciate a neo-medieval, post interstellar Distant Mirror need not apply. If you don't understand that, an understanding of Myers-Briggs and how people that are process-oriented think, will help. Terry is certainly one of us. Those that criticize character development and progression must have favorite characters that they want more focus on or they don't appreciate world-building. This is a world that rivals that of Tolkien's Middle Earth Herbert's Dune, and Jordan's world in The Wheel of Time. Of course, there are NPC's here, but this is a vibrant world with back-characters that are alive, participatory, and become part of the story after being absent for several books. While the Spellmoger Wiki is helpful, Terry offers enough memory-jogs to allow you to place them in the universe without extensive research. Cleverly done.

There are roughly 20 books left and I believe that the best is yet to come.

Must read

I have listened to every book in this series thus far and Necromancer was 100% my favorite of them all. Hands down. No questions asked. If you enjoyed the earlier books in this series and/or you’re getting bored of it, I highly recommend sticking it out for this one. Brilliantly entertaining and inspired writing. Can’t wait for the next one to come out.

mancour continues to impress

absolutely love the series, loved how much more action there was compared to the last couple of books

Spellbounding

Couldn’t put it down. Reviving keeps you enthralled. I hope this is not the last book of this series. There is still a lot left to wrap up. Great story

Bold and Daring

Our favorite Spellmonger returns to fight against the evil Necromancer. Good pacing on this one with few lulls. Excited to see where the story goes.

Just keeps Getting Better

So engrossing and very detailed. I sometimes plan on only listening for a few minutes and find myself still listening two hours later.

Good Story Arc Shift

This is such an entertaining and well-crafted tell. There are two major shifts in the story that will propel the characters into a whole new direction.

The narration is excellent as usual.

A satisfying stopping point.

A satisfying stopping point while the author crafts the next story. I can hardly wait.

Great Great storyline.

Love just about every second of this book.
The best part that had a smile on my face the entire time was the part with Cat explaining things. That's all I'll say.
The only part I didn't like I can't say because of spoilers. But so far it has not been a huge thing.

Best one in a while

The story actually moved forwards and characters had good progression. Interesting mix of genres as well that I am looking forward to seeing how they pan out.