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Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor
2017 · 544 pages · Young adult
How it reads
Strange the Dreamer is young adult (ya epic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is adventurous. It's driven by momentum, discovery and getting into trouble. 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 an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are identity, friendship and love. 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 544 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. 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 adventurous
- you want an escape
- you like disappearing into an invented world
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or melancholy
- you hate waiting for a sequel
- you want something you can finish this weekend
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- young adult
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, one viewpoint
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- identity, friendship, love
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
Books with a similar reading
The closest books in Match Book's catalogue across the same dimensions, and what they share.
- The Traitor PrinceC.J. RedwineShares: young adult, adventurous mood, light and escapist tone, ya epic fantasy
- Rebel of the SandsAlwyn HamiltonShares: young adult, adventurous mood, light and escapist tone, cliffhanger ending
The Dragonet ProphecyTui T. SutherlandShares: young adult, adventurous mood, light and escapist tone, cliffhanger ending
The Hammer of ThorRick RiordanShares: young adult, adventurous mood, light and escapist tone, cliffhanger ending
Howl's Moving CastleDiana Wynne JonesShares: adventurous mood, light and escapist tone, moderate pace, set in an invented world
WarcrossMarie LuShares: young adult, adventurous mood, light and escapist tone, cliffhanger ending
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