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Howard’s portrayal of Johannes, and his vampire brother (Horst), makes for a hilariously dark read that takes you from graveyards, from town to town, and directly into the pits of hell itself. Johannes is a scientist who previously made a deal with the devil to learn the art of necromancy. Now, he wants his soul back and makes a second deal with the devil in order to win it back. One that involves a dark carnival (read as inspired by “Something Wicked this Way Comes,” by Ray Bradbury) in which Johannes must get one hundred souls signed over to the devil in order to win his soul back.

You will see just how far over the line Johannes is willing to step as far as getting evil/corrupt people to sign over their souls (people who are arguably damned anyway) vs. tricking innocent souls into signing their lives away. It makes for an interesting ponder over what you might be capable of doing to others if it meant saving yourself or someone you loved. Would you damn an innocent in order to save yourself? If you say that you wouldn’t, I bet when push came to shove, you would. The fight for self-preservation in order to live is very strong, and is an ingrained instinct that would be hard to change, even if you wanted to.

The writing is full of wit, and the darkness of the subject matter is balanced with the humor of both the situations themselves, and by the dialogue between the characters.

I loved it! We learn at the end of this book exactly why necromancy is so important to Johannes. He doesn’t want to create a zombie army to do his evil bidding, nothing like that. The point isn’t that he wants a bunch of animated corpses to provide free labor to work in his lab. He has a reason for wanting what he wants that isn’t based on an evil desire to harm the world, and this reason is what makes him a sympathetic character.

This is the first book of a series, and I have already ordered the remaining books, with the exception of the fifth (because it hasn’t been released yet).


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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer Johannes Cabal Novels Book 1 edition by Jonathan L Howard Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

Wow! So... having been weened on Lovecraft reading and rereading everything HPL and going to the HPL movie fest for over 10 years in Portland Oregon never missing one I found Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard very refreshing, imaginative, and funny. There are very few who can weave such a good dark yarn. I have read most of this series. Lovecraft mythos are referenced on the preferential. In this first novel there are some very good moments, and for me that's what makes a book. The plot is OK and as good as any. I like the character Johannes Cabal,the Necromancer, and to me I suppose the character is a bit like Douglass Adam's Dirk Gently the Detective crossed with Lovecraft's version of DR. Frankenstein Herbert West. To explain I could see Cabal like Gently being forced to deal with banal mundanity and annoyingly typical people, and on a whimwhen push come so shove somebody annoying ends up in front of a bus or out a window- whatever happens to be convenient at the time. Further more I could then see Cabal thinking better of the rash impulse, shrugging and then deciding that it might be an opportune time to test out a new reagent formula, that Cabal like West might apply the syringe with one hand while holding an over-sized revolver in the other. My apologies if my description was terrible. Many reviews are like Yeeeeah! Jonathan L. Howard is totally like Douglass Adams or Terry Pratchett!!! and others are like Boooo! no he is not. If you are one the fence they try one of the $1 downloadable stories. Anyhow I am sure that soon I will have read everything Cabal related and will wish for more.
I have every kindle tale with Cabal as protagonist. They are engaging stories with few defects anachronisms and a bit slow pace are the ones that draw more my attention. Nevertheless the tales are short and the punch line makes them worthy to read and funny. This is not the case with this book. The small defects are now more noticeable due the persistence of them along the story. In the tales Cabal has comical or lovable characters that counterweight his dryness... he goes to the adventure not for the sake of it but despite it so the secondary protagonists are the ones giving the enthusiasm to the narrated adventure. The book also has more anachronisms, perhaps the author wants to give the idea of a not definite time but the effect is unsettling, breaks the coherence of the narration.
My analysis of the book would be the following
* Satan and the demons are quite infantile, that is not wrong but certainly is weird considering that Cabal it is not. Lack of coherence. I mean, they can be joyful and happier of course but they are like kids in a universe where everybody is it not.
*Around the 20% of the book I understood Cabal was bored with the adventure so I don't know why I would invest in its reading.
*Around 48% I am in pain, this book is hell and I am begging for the wager to be just to get three souls in one hour instead of one hundred in one year Y_Y
* The process to get souls is uninteresting, the carnival is uninteresting.
* The author introduces characters (two robbers, a crow, Cabal's brother) but or they don't participate or they don't want to participate in the story.
* In the Quixote Spain is an empty place filled by his genius and lovable madness. In this story the places Cabal visit are empty and boring and as Cabal doesn't care about the adventure actually he doesn't interact with them, he is so bored that he would prefer to be at home and to be honest me too.
* The resolution is a bit better and it would be a better one if it were the culmination of a short story but, alas, this was so long. I reached 100% for the sheer will to end each book I read.

This book would deserve a lower score if it were not for the amazing chapter that paradoxically is a filler chapter that neither adds nor contributes to the story "Chapter 7 - In which Cabal discovers that hell comes in different flavours and that one should always make time" if you consider it as an independent tale it is worth five stars, Cabal actually struggles and applies his will, he is interested in move the plot I loved it! I enjoyed "Chapter 9 - In which I go to the carnival and see stuff" it is a great story without Cabal so there is not his bored attitude to spoil it. And that is all, I didn't like the book but still there are some few good parts.
Howard’s portrayal of Johannes, and his vampire brother (Horst), makes for a hilariously dark read that takes you from graveyards, from town to town, and directly into the pits of hell itself. Johannes is a scientist who previously made a deal with the devil to learn the art of necromancy. Now, he wants his soul back and makes a second deal with the devil in order to win it back. One that involves a dark carnival (read as inspired by “Something Wicked this Way Comes,” by Ray Bradbury) in which Johannes must get one hundred souls signed over to the devil in order to win his soul back.

You will see just how far over the line Johannes is willing to step as far as getting evil/corrupt people to sign over their souls (people who are arguably damned anyway) vs. tricking innocent souls into signing their lives away. It makes for an interesting ponder over what you might be capable of doing to others if it meant saving yourself or someone you loved. Would you damn an innocent in order to save yourself? If you say that you wouldn’t, I bet when push came to shove, you would. The fight for self-preservation in order to live is very strong, and is an ingrained instinct that would be hard to change, even if you wanted to.

The writing is full of wit, and the darkness of the subject matter is balanced with the humor of both the situations themselves, and by the dialogue between the characters.

I loved it! We learn at the end of this book exactly why necromancy is so important to Johannes. He doesn’t want to create a zombie army to do his evil bidding, nothing like that. The point isn’t that he wants a bunch of animated corpses to provide free labor to work in his lab. He has a reason for wanting what he wants that isn’t based on an evil desire to harm the world, and this reason is what makes him a sympathetic character.

This is the first book of a series, and I have already ordered the remaining books, with the exception of the fifth (because it hasn’t been released yet).