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BOOK REVIEW: Johannes Cabal The Necromancer, by Jonathan L. Howard

The Necromancer is a book like no other. It sort of defies description. It has elements of Faust, and Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett, and Christopher Moore. It is filled with dark humor, with silliness, and with thought provoking questions about the nature of evil, as well as a number of words that you’d never have thought would work together in the same sentence, and yet they do.

In a nutshell, without too many spoilers, the Necromancer follows the tale of Johannes Cabal, who has traded his soul to the Devil in exchange for the ability to be a necromancer. He decides in the first few pages that maybe it wasn’t such a great bargain after all, and travels to Hell (which is nothing if not a giant bureaucracy – and the major reason why everyone should read this is so that people will understand the joke I’m making when I say, “Oh! It looks like Arthur Trubshaw was here!”) to demand an audience with Satan to get his soul back.

Eventually, they decide that Cabal will get his soul back if he gets 100 more for Satan, and Satan, for his own purposes, gives him a circus train in order to help him do this.

Extremely clever. Extremely funny. Bizarre as all get out. Loved it. I’m looking to reading the follow up books.

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Lori B. Duff is an award-winning author who practices law on the side.  Her latest book, “If You Did What I Asked in the First Place” was awarded the Gold Medal for humor in the Foreword INDIES awards in 2019. You can follow her on Twitter at @LoriBDuff and on Facebook. For more blogs written by Lori, click here. For more information about Lori in general, click here. If you want Lori to do your writing for you, click here. If you want Lori to help you market your book, click here.