I've had such good luck with Irish authors, I thought Mike McCormick might be extending that luck, but no. Instead, I wasted my time with THIS PLAGUE OF SOULS. At least it is a short book.

A little more than the first half of this book is taken up with examination of the main character, Nealon. At least it purports to be examination. You really learn next to nothing about him. It's a lot of wasted words.

One thing does happen during this first part. Some man keeps calling, trying to convince Nealon to meet with him. We never learn why; we never learn anything until we get to the next part of the book.

In this part of THIS PLAGUE OF SOULS, we finally learn a little something of Nealon (including that "Nealon" is his last name, not his first name). We mostly learn possibilities, maybe likelihoods, but no certainties. It's a lot of blathering and blah, blah, blah.