The Way of Kings
Scaffold example. Replace the body. Frontmatter shows the shape a long secondary-world epic takes: no
relatedPlaces, heavytropes, highpageCount.
The short version
[Spoiler-free. For a 1,000-page book, answer the question every reader actually has: does the slow start pay off, and by roughly which page.]
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