Cruel Beauty 📖

Cruel Beauty

Hodge, Rosamund
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fantasy urban fantasy / dark fantasy past tense first POV ~327 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive gothic melancholic

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

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 90
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 60%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 70%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count81,817
Page count~327 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst