City of Ghosts 📖

City of Ghosts

Schwab, Victoria
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fantasy urban fantasy past tense first POV ~185 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense gothic melancholic

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 40
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 65
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 80
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count46,184
Page count~185 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst