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Ruin and Rising

Leigh Bardugo
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fantasy urban fantasy / high fantasy past tense first POV ~506 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

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oppressive desperate melancholic

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Contains notable violence, romance.

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Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 90
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 60%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count126,581
Page count~506 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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