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Refugee
Alan Gratz
historical fiction
historical drama
past tense
third limited POV
~280 pp
Vibe
traumatic
gritty
desperate
A dark historical fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends with catharsis. Contains notable violence.
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Style Fingerprint
Prose density
75
sparsedense
Pacing
60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone
20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding
10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot
90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority
85
externalintrospective
Ending
80
unresolvedcathartic
Content
Sexual content
10%
noneexplicit
Structure & Cast
Structure
| Word count | 70,123 |
| Page count | ~280 pp |
| Prologue | — |
| Epilogue | — |
| Tense | past |