Touch Not the Cat 📖

Touch Not the Cat

Stewart, Mary
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mystery gothic mystery past tense first POV ~398 pp

Vibe

gothic melancholic tense

A mystery. Expect dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable romance.

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Style Fingerprint

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

Content

Violence 40%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 90%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count99,564
Page count~398 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst