Malice 📖

Malice

Heather Walter
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fantasy urban fantasy past tense first POV ~466 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

oppressive gothic melancholic

A fantasy. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence, romance, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 78
sparsedense
Pacing 65
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 45
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 92
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 80
externalintrospective
Ending 20
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 60%
noneexplicit
Humor 15%
seriouscomedic
Romance 75%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count116,453
Page count~466 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst