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The Maid
Nita Prose
2019 · 336 pages · Mystery
How it reads
The Maid is mystery (character-driven mystery, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.
It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are identity, friendship and redemption. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 336 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something hopeful
- you want to be sure it ends well
- you're drawn to stories about identity
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy or dark
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- mystery
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- debut
- Setting: place
- big city
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- hopeful
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- mega-bestseller
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- identity, friendship, redemption
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
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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The Word is MurderAnthony HorowitzShares: mystery, balanced tone, resolved and happy ending, set in big city
- Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider WorldOlga KhazanShares: hopeful mood, balanced tone, moderate pace, resolved and happy ending
An Absolutely Remarkable ThingHank GreenShares: hopeful mood, balanced tone, moderate pace, set in big city
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