Match BookThe Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh
2015 · 416 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
The Wrath and the Dawn is fantasy (romantic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is romantic. The relationship is the engine of the story. 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 first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are love, power and politics and secrets. 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 416 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 romantic
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something eerie or tense
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you hate waiting for a sequel
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- romantic
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- love, power and politics, secrets
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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