Books like Sleeping Beauties
12 books with a reading profile close to Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King, Owen King. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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Fairy Tale
by Stephen King
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
Charlie Reade is a high school athlete who life takes a sharp turn after he saves his elderly neighbor, Howard Bowditch, from a medical emergency.
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Vampires of El Norte
by Isabel Cañas
Also clear-cut and escapist · horror, entertainment
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican-American War in the 1840s, the story follows Nena, a curandera and daughter of a ranchero, and Néstor, a vaquero driven by guilt after a childhood tragedy.
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Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows
by Joe Hill
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In this third volume, Sam Lesser’s death leaves the Locke family struggling to manage the escalating supernatural threats within Keyhouse.
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Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games
by Joe Hill
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In the second volume of this supernatural series, the Locke children continue to find enchanted keys hidden within Keyhouse.
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Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction
by Mike Mignola
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1944, a group of Nazi occultists led by Grigori Rasputin attempts a ritual to summon the Ogdru Jahad, the Seven Gods of Chaos, to turn the tide of World War II.
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The Stand
by Stephen King
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
A weaponized strain of influenza nicknamed Captain Trips escapes a military research facility, killing over ninety-nine percent of the global population within weeks.
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New Spring (The Wheel of Time, Book 0)
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set twenty years before the main sequence begins, the narrative focuses on Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche as they transition from Accepted to full Aes Sedai in the White Tower.
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Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Arcanum Unbounded compiles stories and novellas set within the Cosmere, a shared universe where various planets host unique magical systems.
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Dawnshard
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Rysn Ftori, a merchant owner who lost the use of her legs, accepts a dangerous naval commission to sail to the hidden island of Akinah.
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Eragon & Eldest
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
On the farm lands of Palancar Valley, a teenager named Eragon discovers a polished blue stone that hatches into a dragon he names Saphira.
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Eldest
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Following the destruction of the Urgal army at Farthen Dûr, Eragon travels to the elven forest of Ellesméra to begin formal instruction with Oromis, a hidden Dragon Rider.
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