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Warcross
Marie Lu
2017 · 353 pages · Young adult
How it reads
Warcross is young adult (cyber-thriller, 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 future, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are identity. 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 353 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 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
- young adult
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- international
- Setting: time
- future
- Mood / feeling
- adventurous
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, one viewpoint
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- identity
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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