r/CozyFantasy

Hi everyone!

Neighborhood Necromancer book 1: Coffee, Crypts, and Curses is out right now. If you’re looking for a cozy read, you can visit Amazon and have it on your e-reader in seconds!

 

Get Coffee, Crypts, and Curses in eBook and audio formats here:

Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3Y5PKX2

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Coffee-Crypts-and-Curses-Audiobook/B0GZHW6394

 

What’s Neighborhood Necromancer about? 

I’ll post the full blurb in the comments, but to summarize:

This is a low-stakes, cozy series. It’s not easy to become a necromancer, but I can guarantee that the conflicts never turn dark. That’s a promise I make to anyone who reads my books, and I always keep it. Just good vibes and lots of necromancy fun all the way.

Benny lives with his aunt and uncle, who want him to follow in their footsteps and become either an apprentice bard or a baker. He chooses necromancy instead, and he gets apprenticed to Master Necromancer Mortimer Lightroot.

He goes to live in a huge mansion full of ghosts and secret tombs, where he’ll have to master the five core necromancy skills while calming troublesome ghosts, removing curses from antiques, and solving problems for the living and the dead.

I love apprentice-master type stories, so you can expect a lot of that kind of dynamic.

 

What should you expect?

Cozy vibes and satisfying progression for sure. A cast of lovable characters, grouchy mentors, and troublesome ghosts. Dinners around the table, lots of visits to taverns. You know, nice relaxing stuff that makes you happy when you read it.

Basically, if you want a really fun series about an interesting type of magic, and you want to watch a likable guy progress within it, this is exactly the book for you.

 

Read or listen to Neighborhood Necromancer here:

Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3Y5PKX2

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Coffee-Crypts-and-Curses-Audiobook/B0GZHW6394

 

Thank you to anyone who takes a look. If you have questions about the story, me, or anything else, then let me know!

Tom

I'm taking a cross-country (US) train trip this week after being with my mom for a couple weeks after my dad passed away.

I have "Cat Dragon" and "Recipes For An Unexpected Afterlife" loaded on my Kobo and haven't read them yet. It seems like a good opportunity.

If you have read both, which one has better writing? And which one has the least amount of tension?
ETA: No lives genuinely on the line is maybe the best way to look at it. I don't want to worry about anyone making it out alive and I don't want to spend the whole book on pins and needles over secrets and unknown elements that the author is building up to reveal to us or other characters.

I'm not triggered by the afterlife or dead. My dad's death has been painful but I have had a lot of family support and healthy coping mechanisms. But I'm definitely struggling with mental focus and situations with a lot of tension and unknowns. So mediocre writing or a book that is not actually cozy but has a lot of plot build up won't work for me right now.

I've read reviews of both and didn't find any clarity on which might fit better. I'm really hoping for some opinions by folks who have read both but please feel free to weigh in even if you have only read one.

The closest I know is "Parallel World Pharmacy" and "The Isekai Doctor".

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/ParallelWorldPharmacy

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/TheIsekaiDoctor

I would prefer English language origin for books and for them to be on audible however I'm not trying to make a dumb hard rule that would end up with no recommendations.