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The Tiger's Daughter (Ascendant)
K Arsenault Rivera
2017 · Fantasy
How it reads
The Tiger's Daughter (Ascendant) is fantasy (epic fantasy romance, specifically), and its dominant mood is romantic. The relationship is the engine of the story. It's a slow burn: character-driven, with a payoff that comes from accumulation rather than twists. It rewards attention and suits unhurried reading more than five-minute gaps.
It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the first person by several narrators. Its central concerns are love, war and power and politics. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.
It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. 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 romantic
- you have time to settle in
- you want something to chew on
Maybe not if…
- you need something eerie or tense
- you're reading in five-minute gaps
- you hate waiting for a sequel
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- nonbinary
- Author experience
- debut
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- romantic
- Pace
- slow burn
- Tone / weight
- heavy and literary
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, several narrators
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- love, war, power and politics
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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