Amari and the Great Game 📖

Amari and the Great Game

B. B. Alston
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fantasy urban fantasy / young adult fantasy past tense first POV ~382 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense oppressive anxious

A propulsive 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 80
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 90
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 70%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count95,385
Page count~382 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst