Match BookThe Emperor's Edge
Lindsay Buroker
2010 · 324 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
The Emperor's Edge is fantasy (epic fantasy adventure, 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 justice, friendship and power and politics. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 324 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 adventurous
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you like disappearing into an invented world
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
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, one viewpoint
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- justice, friendship, power and politics
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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