Year of Wonders 📖

Year of Wonders

Brooks, Geraldine
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historical fiction historical fiction (plague era) past tense first POV ~427 pp

Vibe

melancholic bleak oppressive

A dark historical fiction. Expect dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Contains notable violence, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 30
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 40
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 90
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 85
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 60%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count106,791
Page count~427 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst