Johannes Cabal by Jonathan L. Howard

What's it about?:
A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice.

Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Now he wants it back. Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever. This time for real. Accepting the bargain, Jonathan is given one calendar year and a traveling carnival to complete his task. With little time to waste, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire to help him run his nefarious road show, resulting in mayhem at every turn.

 

My thoughts:

This is honestly a hard book to review. When I first started this book, I didn't think I was going to like it. However, I ended up loving it. If you don't know what a necromancer is, it is a person that uses magic to summon spirits of the dead. Now, Cabal proves to be a very brilliant man (yet ignorant at times) and while you want him to get his soul back, you have to feel for the victims. So this book is the kind that you love but hate at the same time. You really don't know whose side to be on. I do however, think it's worth checking out if you like fantasy and dark tales. It's a pretty quick read and fairly easy to understand.

Number of Pages: 304
Stars: 5