Katherine's Reviews > Liches Get Stitches

I try not to compare the books I review with other books I've reviewed (at least the more obscure ones) because I never know whether or not the person who reads this might the books that I'm referencing, or even if they've ever reviewed my books at all. But I can't with this one. It shares so much DNA with the Vigor Mortis books that it's hard for me to write a review of the book on its own merits and not just say 'Read Vigor Mortis instead, it's the same thing but better.' Having said that, read Vigor Mortis instead, it's the same thing but better.

Is this book that bad, though? Not really. This is about as two and a half star book as you can get. It's rather run of the mill for its premise and I get that half the time it's going for a kind of tongue in cheek tone, but it kind of misses the mark for me. There were also a few things I wanted to see out of this book, but found it was absent. An initial refusal to accept ones unlife and gradual acceptance of it. An awareness that there might need to be a shift of morality in order to continue to exist as you are. I didn't really get any of that. Maud just wakes up a lich, and is like, 'cool, lets go raise some dead.' from page 1. Other than that the book is just okay. Like I said. Two and a half stars.