I had high hopes for this I have read several necromancer stories in the past and I highly recommend you read them instead (check out see these bones by Chris Tullbane). It’s actually incredible how the author somehow avoided every opportunity to make the story interesting or unique. When I started having these thoughts I gave it a pass thinking “well maybe the story we deepen as we go along I barely started this book after all” only to realize I was 10 hours in. How undiscriptive and short the other reviews are should have been a red flag. In the first two hours the story introduces like 10 interesting character who we leave behind and that are never really replaced. We have interesting power ups put in front of us only for them to be refused in favor of better skeletons. Who wants the power to magically decay things or affect minds when you can have *gasp* 5 skeletons instead of 4. Completely uninspired take on necromancy slow as molasses pacing and characters who are interesting and then immediately abandoned after 3 chapters.