The Death of the Necromancer

DNF - PG 98

Why?

Because I don't like it. Honestly, I'm not enjoying it at all. That is, partially my own fault for not noticing the ‘mystery' tag and being so incredibly feed up with poorly written mysteries as the secondary genre in several books I've read lately.

This one, so far, hasn't had in terribly leaps of logic, but... I feel nothing beyond annoyance while reading. I find the main characters bland and personality-less, the mystery is very verbose - or maybe that's just the writing style because there's an awful lot of words for saying as little as it does. And the writing style is complicated, I can't picture things, flashbacks are not clearly delineated, and people are so randomly mentioned I often have to go ‘who's that?' and still not know. Names are just thrown around willy-nilly and ...

I'm starting to wonder about Wells being one of my favorite authors because for how much I love her Raksura series, really liked her Fall of Ile-Rien series... I've not been having good luck since. I might come back to this one when I'm a little less feed up with mysteries being added to books by authors with no experience writing them, but for now, I'm done.