One for Sorrow

How it reads

One for Sorrow is contemporary fiction (new adult friendship fiction, specifically), and its dominant mood is heartwarming. It's kind, generous and emotionally satisfying. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are friendship, love and identity. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 329 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.