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Nettle & Bone

T. Kingfisher
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fantasy dark fantasy / fairy tale retelling past tense third limited POV ~324 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

oppressive gothic desperate

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

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 80
externalintrospective
Ending 60
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count81,006
Page count~324 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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