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Small Spaces (Small Spaces Quartet)

Katherine Arden
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fantasy middle grade horror fantasy past tense third limited POV ~180 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

tense creepy mysterious

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 72
sparsedense
Pacing 65
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 35
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 75
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count44,932
Page count~180 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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