Tigana: Anniversary Edition 📖

Tigana: Anniversary Edition

Guy Gavriel Kay
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fantasy high fantasy political intrigue past tense third limited POV ~969 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive visceral desperate

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

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 78
sparsedense
Pacing 65
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 92
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 15
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 45%
noneexplicit
Humor 15%
seriouscomedic
Romance 35%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count242,166
Page count~969 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited