There Will Come a Darkness

How it reads

There Will Come a Darkness is young adult (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 power and politics, friendship and survival. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 496 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.