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The Lost Heir
Tui T. Sutherland
2013 · 296 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
The Lost Heir is fantasy (middle-grade 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 coming of age, friendship and power and politics. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 296 pages it's a quick read. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something adventurous
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
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
- prolific veteran
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- short
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- mega-bestseller
- Series vs standalone
- later in a series
- 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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