The Naming Song

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 bestseller
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 named—Maps, Ghosts, Dreams, and Names—could 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...