To find your home, you have to leave it.
Reed is almost twenty, and he doesn’t appreciate the elders of his village Eidolon pestering him about starting a trade, getting married, and—worst of all—taking his Overyear, a coming-of-age tradition in which a boy has to spend a year in the outlands. Reed doesn’t have much patience for old traditions and stories. So while most boys take their Overyear by age fifteen, Reed never did—and now he fears it’s too late, anyway.
But all this changes on the night of the village’s biggest festival when a monster appears in Eidolon and spirits Reed away. Thrust into a world of waiting dangers, Reed must confront his deepest fears just to survive. As Reed begins to forge a life of his own, little does he suspect that the fate of the whole world depends on him.
Overyear is a story of adventure and gentle magic in a world shaped by its mythological past. Fans of Patrick Rothfuss, Naomi Novik and Philip Pullman will fall in love with the characters and world in this novel.
