Small Favor 📖

Small Favor

Butcher, Jim
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urban fantasy urban fantasy with high stakes and supernatural warfare past tense first POV ~556 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

gritty chaotic melancholic

A propulsive and dark urban fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, epic scope. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence, humor.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 65
sparsedense
Pacing 85
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 95
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 40
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 60%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count139,124
Page count~556 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst