Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0767930762 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Accepting the bargain, Jonathan is given one calendar year and a traveling carnival to complete his task. With little time to waste, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire to help him run his nefarious road show, resulting in mayhem at every turn.. This time for real. Now he wants it back. A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice. Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has to persuade one h
It was the persnickety question of where such a carnival might come from and how anybody would end up as a proprietor that inspired my novel. For him, the ends always justify the means, and damn the consequences. Question: What sort of research did you do for the book? Was there anything you came across in the process that really surprised you?Jonathan L. It all looked pretty good from that perspective: money, going to bed when you liked, being able to go into any certificate film, and so on. I needed
"Disappointing but interesting idea" according to Christine Lloyd. Interesting concept and narrative structure, but I'm not sure the writer was able to pull it off. The book reads a bit as a twisted satire of the urban fantasy genre, specifically Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. The protagonist, Johannas Cabal, is an anti-hero, and a somewhat crazy one at that. He's a necromancer who has become obsessed with raising the dead not as zombies or Frankenstein, but as the person was when they were actually alive. He is willing to do anything to accomplish his aim - he does not care. So he makes a deal with Satan, in exchange for his soul, Satan will gi. Not amoral, but operating under a different set of morals all together. Anna Harpe After stumbling upon this book quite by chance and computer generated algorithm, I have been quite unable to express just how much I enjoyed each and every read through this book and its seccessors. It possess a dry sarcasm I have always found enjoyable and its characters are all, even the minor ones, full of interesting nuances. As for Cabal himself, I confess he is the complcated type of haracter I have always dreamed of seeing as main character. Alas, I needed no silver key to discover him and his left-of-moral-center adventures.. Likable AND LITERATE!!! How ironic to start a review by saying that the first thing to capture my attention (beyond the intriguing premise and "enchanting" first chapter) was the literacy this book displays! Although typically unintentional on my part, I am usually distracted in most novels by the lack of attention paid to both the craft of writing and the mechanics of it as well. Wonderful stories are often bogged down by incorrect spelling, rotten sentence structure and horrific repetition. As if some authors (and "they're" editors) got C's in "High School English" and then decided to earn a living