Every Heart a Doorway 📖

Every Heart a Doorway

Seanan McGuire
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fantasy dark fantasy boarding school past tense third limited POV ~157 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

gothic oppressive uncanny

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

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 78
sparsedense
Pacing 45
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 92
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 75
externalintrospective
Ending 15
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 85
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count39,194
Page count~157 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited