Ruby Red 📖

Ruby Red

Gier, Kerstin
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fantasy young adult time travel past tense third limited POV ~302 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

mysterious adventurous whimsical

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, epic scope. Contains notable humor.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 65
sparsedense
Pacing 70
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 40
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 55
externalintrospective
Ending 50
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 40%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 60%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count75,547
Page count~302 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited