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.
