The Reader

"The Reader by Traci Chee offers up a fantasy world where pirates sail the waves and a secret society seeks to hoard the written word. Sefia is a girl on the run from her past with a forbidden book in her pack and a strange new ability to divine the stories of the people she meets. A reader, a seer, a killer — what will she need to become if she wants to unravel the mysteries of the book? Most world-building shies away from tackling the question of literacy within fantasy cultures, but here it serves as the beating meta-heart."