Too Close to Home 📖

Too Close to Home

Walsh, Aoife
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contemporary fiction family drama past tense third limited POV ~339 pp

Vibe

melancholic chaotic angsty

A contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable humor.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 40%
noneextreme
Sexual content 20%
noneexplicit
Humor 60%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count84,823
Page count~339 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited