Match BookLeviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey
2011 · 561 pages · Science fiction
How it reads
Leviathan Wakes is science fiction (space opera, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. 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 the future, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are survival, war and power and politics. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 561 pages it's a real commitment. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you're drawn to stories about survival
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you hate waiting for a sequel
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- science fiction
- Author gender
- multiple or unknown
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- future
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- mega-bestseller
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- survival, war, power and politics
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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