The White Tree
Dante, a young lad, sees someone raise a dead dog and make it do his bidding. Thus he decides that necromancy is the career path for him, and sets off to achieve it, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
The sign of the religion is a tree made of bones. Chapter one finishes with "in six months time, Dante would be stood before it". There's a few sentences like that dotted around that take any suspense out of the novel.
The characters aren't very well done. I didn't really care whether he achieved his goal or not, and other people he met on his travels didn't do anything to make him seem more likeable.
The sign of the religion is a tree made of bones. Chapter one finishes with "in six months time, Dante would be stood before it". There's a few sentences like that dotted around that take any suspense out of the novel.
The characters aren't very well done. I didn't really care whether he achieved his goal or not, and other people he met on his travels didn't do anything to make him seem more likeable.