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The Queen of Blood: Book One of The Queens of Renthia
Sarah Beth Durst
2016 · Fantasy
How it reads
The Queen of Blood: Book One of The Queens of Renthia is fantasy (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 nature, power and politics and justice. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. 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 adventurous
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you like disappearing into an invented world
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or melancholy
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- nature, power and politics, justice
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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