The Burning Bridge 📖

The Burning Bridge

John A Flanagan
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fantasy high fantasy adventure past tense third limited POV ~290 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense grim heroic

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. 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 50
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 0%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count72,437
Page count~290 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited