Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries : Book One of the Emily Wilde Series 📖

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries : Book One of the Emily Wilde Series

Heather Fawcett
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fantasy urban fantasy / faerie tale past tense first POV ~387 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

melancholic atmospheric gothic

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

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 95
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 70%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 60%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count96,728
Page count~387 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst