Match BookThe Grace of Kings
Ken Liu
2015 · 640 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
The Grace of Kings is fantasy (silkpunk 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 across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are power and politics, war and friendship. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. The ending is bittersweet: it resolves, but at a price. At 640 pages it's a real commitment. 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 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 want something you can finish this weekend
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- power and politics, war, friendship
- Ending style
- bittersweet
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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