Stroud, Jonathan - Lockwood & Company 03 - The Hollow Boy 📖

Stroud, Jonathan - Lockwood & Company 03 - The Hollow Boy

Stroud, Jonathan
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fantasy urban fantasy / ghost hunting past tense first POV ~393 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense melancholic oppressive

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

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 65
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 80
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 85
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count98,305
Page count~393 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst