The Book Eaters 📖

The Book Eaters

Sunyi Dean
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fantasy dark fantasy / urban fantasy past tense third limited POV ~442 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive gritty traumatic

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 90
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 65
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

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

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count110,436
Page count~442 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited