Books like Heartless
12 books with a reading profile close to Heartless by Marissa Meyer. Clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Uprooted
by Naomi Novik
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Agnieszka lives in a quiet valley shadowed by a malevolent, sentient Wood that consumes any person who ventures too deep.
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The Scorpio Races
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
On the island of Thisby, the November tides bring the Capaill Uisce, predatory water horses that emerge from the sea with a hunger for human flesh.
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The Ghost Bride
by Yangsze Choo
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Li Lan, a young woman from a declining family in colonial Malacca in 1893, receives an unusual marriage proposal from the wealthy Lim family: to wed their dead son as a ghost bride.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow belongs to a lineage of women plagued by hereditary hallucinations and sudden disappearances.
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Girl, Serpent, Thorn
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Princess Soraya lives hidden within the walls of a rose garden, cursed with a poisonous touch that kills any living thing she encounters.
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City of Bones/City of Ashes/City of Glass/City of Fallen Angels/City of Lost Souls
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Clary Fray discovers she descends from a line of Shadowhunters, human-angel hybrids who police a hidden world of vampires, werewolves, and faeries in modern New York.
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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Unabridged CD Audiobook .
by Diana Gabaldon, Davina Porter
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall travels to the Scottish Highlands with her husband to reconnect after the war.
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, entertainment
Claire and Jamie Fraser face the year 1772 in the North Carolina mountains, where the escalating American Revolution threatens the safety of their settlement, Fraser’s Ridge.
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ALCHEMISED
by SenLinYu
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
In the aftermath of a devastating conflict, Myra, an alchemist held in captivity, is delivered to a necromancer named Heiron to undergo an agonizing mental extraction.
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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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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
by Tia Williams
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
Set against the backdrop of modern-day Harlem, the story follows Ricki Wilde, a free-spirited florist and the black sheep of a prominent, wealthy family.
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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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