Midnight for Charlie Bone 📖

Midnight for Charlie Bone

Nimmo, Jenny
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fantasy middle grade fantasy adventure past tense third limited POV ~265 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

mysterious tense whimsical

A propulsive fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, epic scope. Contains notable humor.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 45
sparsedense
Pacing 75
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 40
externalintrospective
Ending 60
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 40%
noneextreme
Sexual content 0%
noneexplicit
Humor 60%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count66,299
Page count~265 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited