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Three Parts Dead

Gladstone, Max
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fantasy urban fantasy past tense third limited POV ~432 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

oppressive arcane paranoid

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

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

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