Safe Harbour 📖

Safe Harbour

Steel, Danielle
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literary fiction contemporary drama past tense third limited POV ~470 pp

Vibe

melancholic traumatic redemptive

A dark literary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Contains notable violence, romance.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 90
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 80%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count117,456
Page count~470 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited