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The Accidental Sorcerer
K.E. Mills
2008 · 488 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
The Accidental Sorcerer is fantasy (comic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is funny. The humour is the point, not garnish. 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 power and politics. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 488 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something funny
- you want an escape
- you like disappearing into an invented world
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy, dark or tense
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- funny
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, one viewpoint
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- identity, friendship, power and politics
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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