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I just started A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham, the first book in his The Long Price Quartet. It's gotten a lot of good reviews.
The setting is vaguely Asian and I think pre-industrial but not medieval. The magic is done by poets who can control mysterious beings called "andats". They are described as "ideas tamed and given human shape" by the poets and can perform the magic associated with the idea of their names like Seedless or Water-Moving-Down.
I'm only a few pages into it but I'm already wanting to read more.
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