Publisher's Synopsis
To find your home, you have to leave it.
A novel with heart about a late bloomer who discovers a world of adventure. 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.
