Half Bad 📖

Half Bad

Sally Green
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fantasy urban fantasy / dark fantasy past tense first POV ~346 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive desperate melancholic

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

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 65
sparsedense
Pacing 70
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 75
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

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

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count86,511
Page count~346 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst