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The Naming Song
The Naming Song | Jedediah Berry
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A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro. The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of language, and breathes that magic onto every page. Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing When the words went away, the world changed. All meaning was lost, and every border fell. Monsters slipped from dreams to haunt the waking while ghosts wandered the land in futile reveries. Only with the rise of the committees of the namedMaps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Namescould the people stand against the terrors of the nameless wilds. They built borders around their world and within their minds, shackled ghosts and hunted monsters, and went to war against the unknown. For one unnamed courier of the Names Committee, the task of delivering new words preserves her place in a world that fears her. But after a series of monstrous attacks on the named, she is forced to flee her committee and seek her long-lost sister. Accompanied by a patchwork ghost, a fretful monster, and a nameless animal who prowls the shadows, her search for the truth of her past opens the door to a revolutionary futurefor the words she carries will reshape the world. The Naming Song is a book of deep secrets and marvelous discoveries, strange adventures and dangerous truths. It's the story of a world locked in a battle over meaning. Most of all, it's the perfect fantasy for anyone who's ever dreamed of a stranger, freer, more magical world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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CaitlinR
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Wow, just wow! This novel is a magnificent fantasy built around a wonderful premise in a brilliantly built world. Following an apocalyptic historical event, the “silence” nearly destroys the world. Slowly language returns, but the process is corrupted when Committees strangle its growth and disenfranchise those considered “Other.” People dream monsters into being; ghosts are slaves; railroads loom large. Ends with a soul-satisfying rebellion.

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
The Naming Song | Jedediah Berry
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Jedediah Berry‘s 2009 weirdo noir The Manual of Detection was absolutely and very specifically My Thing.

Was thrilled to learn his second novel was coming out this year and oh my gosh just LOOK at it!

My book dance card is so full right now, but I gotta figure out a way to work this in before the end of the year.

#coverlove #bookmail

BookmarkTavern Oh that‘s gorgeous! 2mo
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