A review by throatsprockets
Necroscope by Brian Lumley

3.0

This is a very silly book. Most of its pages are devoted to endless exposition filling in the backstories of every character, major or minor. The main plot is basically a superhero origin story, and this has some genuinely cool ideas. It could have made for a first rate forty page story. The writing is dreadful and reads like it was dictated. I was flabbergasted that someone who had written thirteen previous books could come out with prose this amateurish. It’s a fun read in a lot of ways, but it’s fundamentally ridiculous and full of unintentionally hilarious moments. Recommended mostly to edgy 14 year olds with pictures of skulls on their t-shirts.