Songs of the Dead
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Jun 16, 2026
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A London rocker is faced with a life-or-death choice when he realizes that a powerful society of magic wielders are the only ones keeping London safe in this deft contemporary fantasy cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson with author and musician Peter Orullian.
When Jack Solomon, a struggling musician who works in London’s West End, is killed, he awakens to a new reality in which light and music are used to create magic and where living eras of the past sprawl beneath modern London, layer upon layer, all the way back to recorded history.
Jack also soon discovers that many of those who reside in the stratums of London’s past have grown angry with the present world, and that their anger is being channeled by a powerful society of light-and-music-based magic wielders who can cross the realms between life and death, between the present and the past. A past where the dead are sowing revolution against the living, and all of history is at stake.
Welcome to the Strata Wars.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We were truly enthralled and surprised by this rich urban fantasy novel from Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian. Jack is a London metal musician with a big heart and a fighting spirit—and he’s going to need both of those things. When he’s shot and killed, he quickly discovers that the afterlife, which is located beneath the city, is a seemingly endless series of strata, with each layer representing an era in human history. It’s a place where magic can be summoned using music and light…and some want to use it to change things above ground. Readers already familiar with Sanderson will recognize his brilliant mind at work in this unique magical system. And though Sanderson is best known as a master of high fantasy, his collaborator Orullian (who’s both an author and a musician) clearly imbues this modern setting with a lived-in sense of texture and grit. This is a thrilling story about history, creativity, and having the courage to fight for what’s right.
