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A Deadly Education

Novik Naomi
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fantasy urban fantasy / dark boarding school past tense first POV ~412 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

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oppressive gritty melancholic

A dark fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 95
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count102,910
Page count~412 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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