Match BookThe Kiss That Killed Me
Kristy Nicolle
2015 · 500 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
The Kiss That Killed Me is fantasy (romantic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is romantic. The relationship is the engine of the story. 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 love, identity and power and politics. 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 500 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a hidden gem — known to relatively few readers.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something romantic
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something eerie or tense
- 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
- romantic
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- hidden gem
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- love, identity, power and politics
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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The closest books in Match Book's catalogue across the same dimensions, and what they share.
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