Lore

How it reads

Lore is young adult (mythological 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 a big city setting, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are power and politics, identity and survival. 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 resolves happily. At 480 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.