Lexicon by Max Barry My rating: 3 of 5 stars "So, in the moment he was occupied with the horror of his softening leather, she broke the glass against the edge of the table and sliced it across his throat." Unfortunately this book didn't really speak to me on any level. Insert cliche; "I really wanted to like this one," because I was a bit excited to find an Aussie scifi writer BUT this book just barely skimmed the edge of science fiction. I was expecting a deep dive into linguistics and subliminal messaging, the power of suggestion and verbal manipulation but this is instead a magical fantasy with "thriller" elements. There are magic words, that can be used by magicians (called "poets") to control different people-types. The story is mostly about one poet-in-training who learns, discovers or creates some of these words. I don't know, the rest is all a bit murky for me. Two stories are told which will of...
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