Songs of the DeadBrandon Sanderson

Songs of the Dead

Brandon Sanderson

First published 2026

7.87.8 / 10
Score out of 1023 ratingsEarly score · confidence 11%

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About the book

A London rocker is faced with a life-or-death choice when he realizes that a powerful society of magic wielders are the only ones keeping London safe in this deft contemporary fantasy cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson with author and musician Peter Orullian. When Jack Solomon, a struggling musician who works in London’s West End, is killed, he awakens to a new reality in which light and music are used to create magic and where living eras of the past sprawl beneath modern London, layer upon layer, all the way back to recorded history. Jack also soon discovers that many of those who reside in the stratums of London’s past have grown angry with the present world, and that their anger is being channeled by a powerful society of light-and-music-based magic wielders who can cross the realms between life and death, between the present and the past. A past where the dead are sowing revolution against the living, and all of history is at stake. Welcome to the Strata Wars.

Description: publisher’s blurb via Hardcover

Where the score comes from

The sources average 6.1 across 23 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 11% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.

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What is Songs of the Dead rated?

7.8 out of 10, from 23 reader ratings across 1 independent sources.

Is Songs of the Dead worth reading?

Readers give it 7.8/10 from 23 ratings in open sources.