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Fairy Tale US Edition

King Stephen
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fantasy dark fantasy / fairy tale retelling past tense first POV ~859 pp high worldbuilding
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

oppressive grim magical

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 95
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 65
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

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

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count214,639
Page count~859 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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