Books like Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages
12 books with a reading profile close to Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages by Bill Willingham. Escapist; an easy read.
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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
by Mike Carey
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Richard Mayhew is an ordinary London office worker whose life unravels after he stops to help a bleeding girl named Door on a sidewalk.
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Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In this installment, the focus shifts from the urban Fabletown to "The Farm," an upstate New York sanctuary for non-human fables like the Three Pigs, Shere Khan, and Goldilocks.
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The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite
by Gerard Way
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Sir Reginald Hargreeves, an eccentric billionaire and space alien, adopts seven children born simultaneously to mothers who showed no prior signs of pregnancy.
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Mistborn
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In a world buried under falling ash, the immortal Lord Ruler maintains a thousand-year stranglehold on the oppressed skaa population.
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The First Law Trilogy
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Logen Ninefingers, a northern warrior weary of battle, journeys south to Join the Union at the request of the magus Bayaz.
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Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In Fabletown, the hidden enclave of fairy tale refugees in New York City, Sheriff Bigby Wolf and Deputy Mayor Snow White face an existential threat from their ancestral enemy.
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The Blade Itself
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
The story follows three central figures in a decaying kingdom called the Union.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 1: The Long Way Home
by Joss Whedon
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Picking up where the television series finale ended, this volume follows Buffy Summers as she commands a global organization of over five hundred newly activated Slayers.
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Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Maika Halfwolf is a teenage survivor of a genocidal war between the feline-like Arcanics and the Cumaea, an order of sorceresses who consume Arcanics to fuel their magic.
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10
The Familiar
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set in the Spanish Golden Age, the story follows Luzia Cotado, a scullery maid who uses remnants of prohibited Sephardic magic to ease her daily toil.
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11
Fool
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Pocket, the foul-mouthed court jester to King Lear, attempts to prevent the kingdom of Britain from collapsing into bloody chaos.
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The Alloy of Law
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set three hundred years after the original Mistborn trilogy, this story follows Waxillium Ladrian, a lawman who leaves the frontier Roughs to manage his noble house in the industrializing city of Elendel.
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