Match BookOracle
Carissa Andrews
2018 · 262 pages · Science fiction
How it reads
Oracle is science fiction (post-apocalyptic science fiction, 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 first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are survival, identity and power and politics. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 262 pages it's a quick read. It's a hidden gem — known to relatively few readers.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
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
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- future
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- short
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- hidden gem
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- survival, identity, power and politics
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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