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A review by sparkleboymatty
Four Summoner's Tales by David Liss, Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong
3.0
A collection of 4 necromancer tales. I like the idea behind the book - assign 4 authors to write a story based on the sentence "A strange visitor comes to town, offering to raise the townfolk's dearly departed from the dead - for a price". Not as scary as I would have liked, but entertaining.
Suffer the Children by Kelley Armstrong - Bought the book for Kelley's story, and read it last. Not bad. As always, good character development. Ended a little abruptly though.
Pipers by Christopher Golden - The most gruesome and memorable addition to the bunch, but not necessarily my favourite. Good though.
A Bad Season for Necromancy by David Liss - I read this first because I'd never heard of David Liss before. It ended up being my favourite. Good story and some humour too.
Alive Day by Jonathan Maberry - Mixed feelings on this on. On the one hand, it had really cool mythology that I'd have liked to know more about. On the other hand, it was set in a warzone and the characters were soldiers, which didn't keep my interest.
Suffer the Children by Kelley Armstrong - Bought the book for Kelley's story, and read it last. Not bad. As always, good character development. Ended a little abruptly though.
Pipers by Christopher Golden - The most gruesome and memorable addition to the bunch, but not necessarily my favourite. Good though.
A Bad Season for Necromancy by David Liss - I read this first because I'd never heard of David Liss before. It ended up being my favourite. Good story and some humour too.
Alive Day by Jonathan Maberry - Mixed feelings on this on. On the one hand, it had really cool mythology that I'd have liked to know more about. On the other hand, it was set in a warzone and the characters were soldiers, which didn't keep my interest.