Iron Flame 📖

Iron Flame

Yarros Rebecca
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fantasy high fantasy past tense first POV ~1,006 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense gritty angsty

A propulsive and dark fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence, romance, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 85
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 95
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 75%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 85%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count251,511
Page count~1,006 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst