Match BookVictim
Casey Hill
2012 · 362 pages · Thriller
How it reads
Victim is thriller (serial-killer thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. 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 a big city setting, in the present day, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are justice, secrets and survival. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 362 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. 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 tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- thriller
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- big city
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, one viewpoint
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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