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This Rough Magic

Stewart, Mary
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mystery whodunit thriller past tense first POV ~418 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

tense oppressive paranoid

A mystery. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 20
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 85
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 20%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count104,582
Page count~418 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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