Three Parts Dead 📖

Three Parts Dead

Gladstone, Max
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fantasy urban fantasy past tense third limited POV ~432 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive arcane paranoid

A dark fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 78
sparsedense
Pacing 65
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 95
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 15%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count107,935
Page count~432 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited