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The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan
2010 · 528 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
The Red Pyramid is fantasy (middle-grade mythological 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 international setting, in the present day, told in the first person by several narrators. Its central concerns are family, identity and power and politics. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 528 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 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
- male
- Author experience
- prolific veteran
- Setting: place
- international
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- first person, several narrators
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- mega-bestseller
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- family, identity, power and politics
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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