Piercing the Darkness 📖

Piercing the Darkness

Peretti, Frank
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fantasy urban fantasy / spiritual warfare thriller past tense third limited POV ~702 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense oppressive redemptive

A dark fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends with catharsis. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 80
externalintrospective
Ending 90
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 15%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count175,617
Page count~702 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited