- Dead -- Fiction, Identity -- Fiction, Magic -- Fiction, Seattle (Wash.) -- Fiction
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and resolved.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Lish McBride
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), Henry Holt, Square Fish
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781429941105
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 3 have read it and 19 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
First Grave on the Right90% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious.- One fell sweep 201690% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious.
Strange practice 201787% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious.
He Who Fights With Monsters 2 202184% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious.
Fool Moon 200184% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious.
Moon called 200584% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious.
Mortal Coil 201084% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious.
Death Masks 200383% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious.
How I Became a Superhero 202087% alikeFilm · Both contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious.
The Invisible Man 200086% alikeTelevision · Both contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious.