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Touch Not the Cat

Stewart, Mary
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mystery gothic mystery past tense first POV ~398 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

gothic melancholic tense

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

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

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