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Crooked Kingdom

Leigh Bardugo
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fantasy urban fantasy / heist thriller past tense third limited POV ~650 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

tense oppressive gritty

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

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 70
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 90
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 75
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count162,617
Page count~650 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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