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A Great and Terrible Beauty

Bray, Libba
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fantasy dark fantasy boarding school past tense first POV ~388 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

oppressive gothic mysterious

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Prose density 78
sparsedense
Pacing 65
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 35
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 82
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 70%
noneextreme
Sexual content 40%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 50%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count97,053
Page count~388 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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