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The Crow Girl
Erik Axl Sund
2016 · 767 pages · Mystery
How it reads
The Crow Girl is mystery (nordic noir serial-killer thriller, 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 big city setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are justice, secrets and loss and grief. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.
It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 767 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 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 hate waiting for a sequel
- you want something you can finish this weekend
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- mystery
- Author gender
- multiple or unknown
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- big city
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- dark
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- heavy and literary
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- justice, secrets, loss and grief
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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