Max Barry, Lexicon

As I mentioned in this post, after reading a sample of Lexicon on kindle I immediately reserved the book from the library. 

The Plot: 'sticks and stones break bones, words kill'. At an exclusive school students are taught to persuade and manipulate other people using words, the very best will graduate as poets and will have the power to control people's minds. Emily is hustling on the street when she is recruited, under the guidance of Bronte, Lowell and Eliot she becomes the school's most talented pupil. Meanwhile Wil is violently attached in a airport bathroom, he has no recollection of what he is supposed to have done, or who his attackers are.

ISBN: 9781444764680

Rating: «««¶¶ (3/5)

Full review under the cut *contains spoilers*:

words

"The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain"

-Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Words

"Words are powerful. They too can be agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world."

- David Malouf, Ransom