Books like Forever Odd
12 books with a reading profile close to Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. Escapist; an easy read.
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Thornhedge
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In this subversion of the Sleeping Beauty myth, Toadling is a changeling fairy stolen from her human family and raised in the fae realm.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter works as an overworked employee at the Ministry of Magic while his son, Albus Severus, struggles with the weight of his family legacy.
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3
Dear Child
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Lena Beck disappeared fourteen years ago, leaving her family in a state of permanent grief.
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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric are talented alchemists who violated a core natural law by attempting to resurrect their deceased mother.
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The Emperor's Soul
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Shai is a Forger, a practitioner of magic who can rewrite an object’s history to alter its physical form.
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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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The Witch's Heart
entertainment, narrative
Angrboda, a witch of the Iron Wood, survives being burned thrice by the Aesir gods for refusing to share her prophetic visions.
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Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1
entertainment, narrative
Coco is a young girl born without magical abilities who spends her days in her mother’s tailoring shop.
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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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10
The Dead Zone
by Stephen King
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Johnny Smith wakes from a five-year coma to discover he has lost his fiancée and his health.
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City of Lost Souls
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
In the fifth installment of the Mortal Instruments series, Clary Fray discovers that Jace Herondale is bound to the villainous Sebastian Morgenstern through a dark ritual.
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Whalefall
by Daniel Kraus
thriller, entertainment
Jay Gardiner is a teenager diving off the coast of Monastery Beach to recover his late father’s remains when a massive sperm whale accidentally swallows him whole.
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