2.5 rounded down to 2

This book was strange in that it was highly difficult to motivate myself to finish it and I felt annoyed much of the time I was reading it, but in the end I still think there was a good story.  Certainly there were good moments that had me hooked, but in between so much dull drudgery to get through.  

Often the best most interesting action was glossed over in less than 2 paragraphs, while sensory descriptions in completely calm scenes were drawn out to several pages.  The necromancy felt like an after thought, instead of being something that makes the MC really stand out from everyone else.  NO ONE really stood out in this book, they were all so interchangeable I forgot who someone was repeatedly.  The names were also too similar. Characters did things I did not understand and felt they had no motivation to do, most back story was not fleshed out at all, no one really cared about anyone else and it was all very superficial. The random "oh am I attracted to this person?" was so out of place with the story line too... like "Ma'am, you are a in the middle of a revolution, please stop thinking about dick." It would be different if it were one of THOSE kind of books, but it is NOT!  

There is a good story here though!  It just gets lost in what honestly felt like a rough draft put through a spell checker. I bought all 3 from Thriftbooks because I LOVE a good protagonist woman necromancer and the covers are intriguing (but there at no point was an arabic style outfit featured in the pages) .  Part of me wants to keep reading to see if it gets any better, but glancing at the reviews does not seem promising...  I want to know, but I also don't want to feel so bogged down again, staring forlornly at my other books.  It is so strange!  I usually feel hate, meh, or love a book and this one somehow made me feel all 3.