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How to Make Friends with the Dark

Glasgow Kathleen
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contemporary fiction young adult literary fiction past tense first POV ~427 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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bleak traumatic melancholic

A dark contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 15
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 95
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count106,872
Page count~427 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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