Necromancy the Musical by Debbie Hibbert – Review by Ayla Phipps

Necromancy the Musical by Debbie Hibbert
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Life, Death, Learned. Magic can be dangerous. This is the first book I have read by Debbie Hibbert and there are not enough words to describe her talent. CeCe Leblanc is sixteen in New Orleans, she’s a necromancer and a week at drama camp has become so much more.
CeCe and her best friend Portia have been looking forward to Drama Camp for ages it seems, each for different reasons. CeCe loves to learn and participate in as many classes as possible. Portia is the eldest of six and needs a break from her chaotic home life before summer break starts. At the age of six CeCe learned in a traumatic way that she has necromancy magic when her dog Max died, and she raised him. Her mother told her that her magic was too much and instantly disappeared. Her father and his mother, Mawmaw raised her and helped her learn about her magic, not fearing it or her for it. Over the past decade CeCe has been her father’s secret weapon in countless murders, helping him catch the killers and bringing justice to the families, and peace to the spirits. One last visit to the morgue with her dad before camp changes everything. He said the case was weird, the wounds seeming to come from the inside. Unable to see the face to help she goes to camp and quickly is “spirit-kidnapped” in her nightmare, a Caster that has dirty magic leaves not only physical bruises on her but black magic tinging her. Zach, the cute guy at camp, has mixed reactions to her until she confronts him and after Ancestor Night at camp she truly understands why. He could sense the black magic on her and tells the reason he refuses to use magic or date someone with it. Zach warms her cold magic with his warm magic. The Caster needs her magic and haunts her in many ways trying to get it.
Who is The Caster? Why do they need her magic? Can CeCe help Zach see that magic isn’t all bad that it truly can be good and help others. Having been to New Orleans earlier this year for the first time I absolutely fell in love with the place, and reading this helped me imagine I was there again. The characters are a wonderful blend, each having their place of importance without taking anything from the other characters and helping the main characters evolve with the progression of the story. I honestly could not stop reading and at every turn found I couldn’t catch my breath as I rushed to the end. Can’t wait to dive into another work by this author. Instant new favorite book for the year so far.

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