Why You'll Love This
Everything you think you know about necromancy destroying the world turns out to be a very convenient lie.
- Great if you want: a standalone fantasy that rewrites its own mythology as it goes
- The experience: propulsive and twisty — secrets compound faster than answers arrive
- The writing: Lyons builds unreliable history into the structure itself, not just the plot
- Skip if: the 3.67 average signals real reader division — pacing splits opinions
About This Book
When everything you've been taught about history turns out to be a lie, the real threat is never what you trained to fight. Mathaiik has spent his life preparing to defend his world against the remnants of necromancy — a force history marks as the greatest evil it ever faced. But when something far stranger begins tearing through the landscape, devouring the unprepared and making the Knights look like amateurs, Mathaiik is forced to question not just his training but the entire foundation of the world he swore to protect. Green & Deadly Things builds its stakes from the inside out: the external danger is vivid and inventive, but the real tension lives in watching certainty collapse.
Jenn Lyons writes with the confident irreverence of someone who genuinely enjoys dismantling fantasy conventions while still delivering everything readers came for — momentum, worldbuilding with real texture, and magic systems that feel both original and internally coherent. The standalone structure means the story earns its ending without demanding series commitment, and Lyons keeps the pacing tight enough that 368 pages move like far fewer. Readers who like their fantasy strange, a little sardonic, and structurally satisfying will find this delivers.