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A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
2020 · 320 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
A Deadly Education is fantasy (fantasy adventure, specifically), and its dominant mood is adventurous. It's driven by momentum, discovery and getting into trouble. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in an invented world, in the present day, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are coming of age, identity and friendship. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. The ending is bittersweet: it resolves, but at a price. At 320 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something adventurous
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you like disappearing into an invented world
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or melancholy
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- prolific veteran
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- new release
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- coming of age, identity, friendship
- Ending style
- bittersweet
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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