Where Gods Whisper - Couverture souple

Colapietro, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798995064503

Editeur : Paradigm Press, 2026

Synopsis

The world ended. What replaced it was worse.

But what if the people who survived were made to forget it ever happened?

Mencken Barnes has only fragmented memories of life outside the small room where she has spent most of her existence. Time comes in brief stretches of consciousness she calls awakenings. She doesn't know why she was taken, where she is held, or whether anyone is coming for her.

Outside her cell, life has been rebuilt on silence and control.

When she finally escapes, the world waiting for her is a mystery in ruins: abandoned cars, skeletal remains, a strange yellow symbol leading her toward something she can't name. And at the end of the road a new civilization is being rebuilt on one terrifying idea. Erase the memories. Erase the pain. Erase the self.

But something in Mencken refuses to stay quiet. A buried truth pushes her forward. And in a world that has forgotten what it was, that truth may be the last thing that matters.

The story follows a strong female lead as she finds the chance to rebel against a world built to erase her. It's told partly through its own evidence which "cleverly aligns the reader with Mencken; both must piece together what's happened to the nation by using the titular text-within-a-text" (Kirkus Reviews). This is accomplished through in-world newspaper articles, government documents, interview transcripts, and text-message exchanges woven through the narrative. Where Gods Whisper blends elements of literary dystopia with the suspense of a slow-burning mystery, asking what kind of future remains when truth is forgotten, and whether any human can claim real power in a civilization that has collapsed by disaster and by design.

Scientia potentia est.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Paradigm Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798995064503
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Ridley Jonathan
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg