Curse of the Bane # (US) 📖

Curse of the Bane # (US)

Delaney, Joseph
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fantasy urban fantasy / dark fantasy past tense first POV ~314 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive grim melancholic

A dark fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count78,530
Page count~314 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst