The Enchanter's Rise: An Epic Fantasy Adventure

The Necromancer's End, Book 2

By: Jack Pembroke

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng

Having successfully defended his city and quit necromancy, Jeremiah's learning new skills—but old habits are hard to break when you're up against monsters.

In the wake of unrest, embers of discontent still glow hot in Dramir. And thanks to the role that ex-necromancer Jeremiah Thorn and his friends played in defeating Vivica—and defunding the city's wealthy elite—they're frequent targets for verbal abuse and a steady stream of lawsuits. There seems to be no way out of the mess, but luckily this adventuring party still has some tombs to raid, traps to defeat, and, most importantly, treasures to hunt.

And this time, Jeremiah plans to rely on his beginner-level enchanting and backyard spear-fighting lessons. No summoning undead minions; that's the rule. The question is how long he can stick to the plan when dark forces both above—and below—ground aren't playing by any rules at all, and unseen tyrants are yanking the strings in a quest to destroy them. Does he have what it takes to face down mad mages, monsters, and mercenaries and turn what feels like a dead-end job into a destiny?

The second volume of the hit fantasy-adventure series—with more than 250,000 views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

Tropes include: redemption arc, found family, hero's journey, fish out of water, and moral ambiguity.

©2025 Jack Pembroke (P)2025 Podium Audio

another great story.

this book will make you feel for the characters and the situation of the story. its long and a bit slow at first but keep reading and its great.

Great Sequel

Characters were more fleshed out and continued to grow, including side characters. Itching for another in the series.

Payoff for book 1

I can't recommend this book enough. It's seriously just a wild ride start to finish. All of the characters feel human. All of the conflict, the tension, the rationale, it's all impeccably executed. The narrator has the same excellence as the previous book, and the author just shines with a more fleshed out (pun intended) protagonist.

This is in my "Stop all other books and read this immediately" grouping of book series. If you read regularly, you'll know what kind of an accolade that is.

Even better than the first book!

I adored the first book and J's character, but his growth is absolutely wonderful to see expanded on in this book. Its rare to see a character come full circle into their own. Even more rare to see it well written. All of the main characters in this book feel genuine and real. The magic system is well done and expanded on from the first book. And we got a return glimpse of fluso - who is still my favorite character. I would love to see a third book to this series (and definitely more of fluso!!!) Highly recommend this series!

so, he's not being a necromancer for like 80% of it?

he's constantly such a whiny baby. if not for him getting a massive reality check from a friend, why was this book so off? endless struggles from trying not to be a necromancer, only to be solved by him finally resolving it by using necromancy.