These Violent Delights 📖

These Violent Delights

Gong Chloe
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historical fiction historical thriller with supernatural horror elements past tense third limited POV ~534 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive gothic desperate

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

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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 70
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 60%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count133,576
Page count~534 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited