Brother 📖

Brother

Ahlborn, Ania
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horror psychological horror / dark family drama past tense third limited POV ~325 pp

Vibe

oppressive visceral melancholic

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

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 15
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 100%
noneextreme
Sexual content 60%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count81,292
Page count~325 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited