Dead as a Doornail 📖

Dead as a Doornail

Harris, Charlaine
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fantasy urban fantasy past tense first POV ~356 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense paranoid gothic

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Contains notable violence, romance.

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Style Fingerprint

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

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 40%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 60%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count88,998
Page count~356 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst