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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
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

tense melancholic oppressive

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

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

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