The Green Ember (The Green Ember Series: Book 1) 📖

The Green Ember (The Green Ember Series: Book 1)

S. D. Smith
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fantasy young adult fantasy past tense third limited POV ~291 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense oppressive desperate

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 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 65
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 0%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 0%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count72,861
Page count~291 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited