Blood Work 📖

Blood Work

Connelly, Michael
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mystery crime thriller past tense third limited POV ~566 pp

Vibe

tense gritty paranoid

A mystery. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 70
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count141,505
Page count~566 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited