Happily Ever After 📖

Happily Ever After

Kiera Cass
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young adult dystopian romance past tense first POV ~346 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense romantic oppressive

A young adult. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends with catharsis. Contains notable violence, romance.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 45
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 65
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 80
externalintrospective
Ending 85
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 45%
noneexplicit
Humor 35%
seriouscomedic
Romance 95%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count86,424
Page count~346 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst