The Dissonance : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Shaun Hamill

• Book ID: 115254954
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 440 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593317266

✦ Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters ("I loved it" --Stephen King) comes an epic contemporary fantasy, a mixture of The Magicians and It : a story of dark magic, terrible mistakes, and second chances.
"You can never go home again," the saying goes--but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone.
But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them back to Clegg, Texas. There, their paths will collide with that of Owen, a closeted teenager from Alabama whose aborted cemetery seance with his crush summoned something far...