Spy School 📖

Spy School

Stuart Gibbs
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young adult spy thriller past tense first POV ~249 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense paranoid high-stakes

A propulsive young adult. Expect rich worldbuilding, epic scope. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 65
sparsedense
Pacing 85
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 80
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 50
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count62,270
Page count~249 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst