Ile-Rien: The Death of the Necromancer (Audiobook)

from Mintypink

With prose as rich in detail as the surroundings she describes, Martha Well's fictional Ile-Rien that is the setting for The Death of the Necromancer, seems the perfect backdrop to a very elaborate plot. It seems French in origin but the reader would get lost if he/she attempted to assign modern ...

from Herenya

Set a hundred years after The Element of Fire, this is a complicated and compelling mystery, with characters who try to conceal just how deeply they care. Nicholas Valiarde wants revenge on the man responsible for orchestrating the wrongful arrest and execution of Nicholas's foster-father on cha...

from bruce_krafft

I like the characters. Nicholas seeks to get back at the evil count who orchestrated the execution of his foster father. He brings a small group of people together in this common cause - the destruction of Count Montesq. They are turned away from this goal when events interrupt their mission, gho...

from pwaites

While The Death of the Necromancer is set in the same world as a prior novel by Martha Wells, it stands alone and I had no problems reading it independently of the other book. I am so glad I did read this one – The Death of the Necromancer is a wonderfully evocative gaslight fantasy novel set in ...

from pyanfarrrr

This is a very enjoyable heist story, set in a Victorian not-Europe with sorcery and lots of colorful, memorable characters. For the last ten years, ever since his foster father's execution, Nicholas Valiarde has assumed a criminal alter ego and pulled off high-profile thefts with the help of his...