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The Luminaries
Susan Dennard
2022 · 291 pages · Young adult
How it reads
The Luminaries is young adult (paranormal adventure, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. 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 the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are friendship, identity and nature. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 291 pages it's a quick read. 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 hopeful
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy or dark
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- young adult
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- hopeful
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- short
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- friendship, identity, nature
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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