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The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1)
Philip Pullman
fantasy
high fantasy adventure
past tense
third limited POV
~532 pp
high worldbuilding
Vibe
oppressive
atmospheric
desperate
A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.
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Style Fingerprint
Prose density
75
sparsedense
Pacing
40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone
30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding
90
minimalmaximal
Char / plot
60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority
70
externalintrospective
Ending
20
unresolvedcathartic
Content
Sexual content
30%
noneexplicit
Speculative hardness
soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic
Structure & Cast
Structure
| Word count | 132,936 |
| Page count | ~532 pp |
| Prologue | — |
| Epilogue | — |
| Tense | past |