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The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
2007 · 486 pages · Mystery
How it reads
The Mysterious Benedict Society is mystery (middle-grade mystery adventure, 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 a big city setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are friendship, identity and justice. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 486 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. 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 want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or melancholy
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- mystery
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- big city
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- friendship, identity, justice
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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