She can't refuse to read the book her father and grandmother and all the necromancer ancestors have written anymore- even thought how it calls and talks to her freaks her out. That is, until she goes out with restaurant leftovers to deliver to a homeless man and discovers him dead. But high school is over and she's home free. Rose has lived with the fear that the power to see dead spirits- which drove her father crazy- will descend upon her now that she's reached young adulthood. (don't read this book hungry) There's also a lot of description of scents, which sometimes was cool (I liked all the cologne descriptions for Ed, the love interest, etc) and sometimes struck me as too frequent. And her wild-haired brother Ed owns a Tex Mex-Cajun fusion restaurant and feeds her the yummiest sounding meals. The chilies might seem like a non-sequitur but believe me, one of the pleasures of this book is the fact that our young adult heroine, Rose, loves to eat. It's bright, sunny, desert, and there's chilies in the food. This is an urban fantasy set in Albuquerque, New Mexico.so refreshingly not the gritty, damp, urban city setting Urban Fantasy lovers might have come to expect. Rose searches for a peaceful, mundane way to get the lumenancers to leave her alone, but when they threaten Ed, she must embrace her necromancy and all that the book of magic has to teach her. Not only are they eager to eliminate Rose, but they want to kill Ed, too, just to make sure he can't pass the magic on. For centuries, they have believed it their sacred duty to wipe out necromancers. However, her power attracts three lumenancers, or wielders of light, to Albuquerque to kill her. She wants nothing to do with the magic that drove her father to kill her mother and then himself, and so she refuses to read her family's book of magic or admit that she's anything but normal. Not only has she inherited her family's necromancy after all, but it's the most potent form that exists.
She just graduated high school, she finally worked up the nerve to ask Roger on a date, and it looks like her family's necromancy skipped her.īut then she finds the corpse of a homeless man behind her brother Ed's restaurant and inadvertently revives him.
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