Night Games 📖

Night Games

Stine, R L; Schmidt, Bill
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thriller young adult mystery thriller past tense first POV ~105 pp

Vibe

tense paranoid ominous

A propulsive and dark thriller. Expect minimal worldbuilding, epic scope. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 45
sparsedense
Pacing 75
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 55
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 85
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count26,261
Page count~105 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst