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Kings of the wyld
Nicholas Eames
2017 · Fantasy
How it reads
Kings of the wyld is fantasy (comic fantasy quest, specifically), and its dominant mood is funny. The humour is the point, not garnish. 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 several locations, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are friendship, loss and grief and redemption. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is bittersweet: it resolves, but at a price. It's a long book, and a real commitment. 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 funny
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy, dark or tense
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you want something you can finish this weekend
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- funny
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- friendship, loss and grief, redemption
- Ending style
- bittersweet
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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