Dark River 📖

Dark River

Hunter, Erin
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fantasy young adult fantasy past tense third limited POV ~285 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense anxious urgent

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

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 80
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 70
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 0%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count71,304
Page count~285 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited