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Liches Get Stitches
Liches Get Stitches · Book 1
Maud would like her garden, her cat and enough quiet to get on with her knitting. Becoming a lich, a powerful undead magic user, attracts heroes and clerics who have other plans for her. Maintaining her home now involves disposing of the people who come to destroy it.
From the publisher’s blurb
“Undead paradise never looked so good.”Read the full description at Podium Entertainment
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What makes it funny?
Maud treats corpses as a practical household problem. Storage, gardening and decorative arrangements still matter, even when the materials are human remains. One reader in a LitRPG book group recommends the series specifically for a necromancer more interested in her garden than world conquest.
The comedy at work
Tolson puts domestic fussiness beside acts of necromancy. Maud wants an ordinary hermit's comforts, while the neighbors see an undead threat; the jokes depend on how matter-of-factly she handles the resulting carnage.
Try this if…
Dark-fantasy readers who enjoy a villainous lead with small personal priorities may like Maud. The appeal is in macabre domestic detail, so a fondness for crafting and gardens can coexist here with a high tolerance for gore.
Good to know
The opening includes ritual sacrifice and graphic killing, and the publisher advertises gruesome uses for human remains. The gardening and knitting premise comes with substantial violence. The reader report also notes that the series has higher stakes beyond Maud's domestic concerns.
A few distinguishing details
- An undead witch who wants time for her garden
- Necromancy treated as household management
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