Necromancer Awakening, Nat Russo
Necromancer Awakening, Nat Russo
List: $22.95 | Sale: $16.07
Club: $11.47

Necromancer Awakening
Book One of the Mukhtaar Chronicles

Author: Nat Russo

Narrator: Tristan Morris

Unabridged: 13 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/13/2015


Synopsis

"Knowledge in the absence of wisdom is a dangerous thing."Texas archaeology student Nicolas Murray has an ironic fear of the dead. A latent power connecting him to an ancient order of necromancers floods his mind with impossible images of battle among hive-mind predators and philosopher fishmen. When a funeral service leaves him shaken and questioning his sanity, the insidious power strands him in a land where the sky kills and earthquakes level cities—a land where the undead serve the living and necromancers summon warriors from ancient graves to fight in a war that spans life and afterlife.If Nicolas masters the Three Laws of Necromancy, he can use them to get home. But as he learns to raise and purify the dead—a process that makes him relive entire lifetimes in the span of a moment—the very power that could bring him home may also prevent his return. For the supreme religious leader, the Archmage Kagan, has outlawed necromancy, and its practitioners risk torture and execution.As warring nations hunt necromancers to extinction, countless dead in limbo await a purification that may never come.Nicolas' power could be his way home—or it could save a world that wants him dead.

About Nat Russo

Nat Russo was born in New York, raised in Arizona, and has lived just about everywhere in between. He’s gone from pizza maker, to radio DJ, to Catholic seminarian (in a Benedictine monastery, of all places), to police officer, to software engineer. His career has taken him from central Texas to central Germany, where he worked as a defense contractor for Northrop Grumman. He’s spent most of his adult life developing software, playing video games, running a Cub Scout den, gaining/losing/gaining/losing weight, and listening to every kind of music under the sun. Along the way he managed to earn a degree in philosophy and a black belt in Tang Soo Do. He currently makes his home in central Texas with his wife, son, and mischievous beagle.

About Tristan Morris

Tristan Morris is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. He received an MFA in acting from the New School for Drama in New York City after studying theater and philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University. His work as a voice actor began in 2011 after training with master teachers Scott Brick, Pat Fraley, and Nancy Wolfson. He works in New York City and Denver creating new theatrical works.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ronie on December 29, 2024

Didn't see any of that comming. One minute there's a funeral then an......more

Goodreads review by C.L. on June 24, 2014

Russo builds a world intrinsically different from our own, yet manages to draw strands of connection that allow the reader to inhabit that world in breathless anticipation of “what happens next.” Nicolas begins as a smart mouthed college student with a penchant for defiance, yet we like him, and sym......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on May 07, 2014

Words can't describe how much I liked this story. Nat takes a concept which seems so bound by its theme- necromancy- and weaves a new interpretation of it that's new to me. The idea of 'sacred necromancy' has never been so well-done to my knowledge, and the way that he shares the ruin of Erindor wil......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on July 10, 2014

This book took me a little while to get into. It was a little surprising to find the main character in Austin Texas to start the book. Many of the idioms the character used were annoying and repetitive - especially since there were a limited number of these sayings. Once getting passed the first few......more

Goodreads review by Brandy on August 09, 2015

This book was honestly very difficult to get into and I almost quit reading several times at the beginning (which I hardly ever do). HOWEVER- once it finally started making a little more sense to me, I could not put it down. I wanted to keep reading every second until I finished it, and now I can't......more


Quotes

“Mind-blowingly good.” Nicholas Rossis, bestselling author of the epic fantasy Pearseus series

“Best book I’ve read this year. Nat Russo could turn into my favorite author.” Phillip Ferreira, founder, Reviewboard magazine