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The Icebound Land

Flanagan, John
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fantasy adventure fantasy past tense third limited POV ~301 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

tense gritty desperate

A fantasy. Expect dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 72
sparsedense
Pacing 45
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 65
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 75
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count75,368
Page count~301 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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