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The Black Witch
Laurie Forest
2017 · 601 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
The Black Witch is fantasy (young-adult epic fantasy, 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 an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are identity, power and politics and coming of age. 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 601 pages it's a real commitment. 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 adventurous
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or melancholy
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you hate waiting for a sequel
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, one viewpoint
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- identity, power and politics, coming of age
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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