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The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1)

Philip Pullman
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fantasy high fantasy adventure past tense third limited POV ~532 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

oppressive atmospheric desperate

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count132,936
Page count~532 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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