Match BookThe Book of Accidents
Chuck Wendig
2021 · 530 pages · Horror
How it reads
The Book of Accidents is horror (supernatural horror, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. 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 a small town setting, in the recent past, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are family, loss and grief and secrets. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 530 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 dark
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want something to chew on
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy, heartwarming or funny
- you want something you can finish this weekend
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- horror
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- prolific veteran
- Setting: place
- small town
- Setting: time
- recent past
- Mood / feeling
- dark
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- heavy and literary
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- family, loss and grief, secrets
- Ending style
- ambiguous
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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- The BreachNick CutterShares: horror, dark mood, fast paced, loss and grief as a theme
- We Ate the DarkMallory PearsonShares: horror, dark mood, heavy and literary tone, family as a theme
- Fever DreamSamanta SchweblinShares: horror, heavy and literary tone, fast paced, ambiguous ending
- Galloway's GospelSam RebeleinShares: horror, dark mood, heavy and literary tone, set in small town
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