Books like The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 5: Imperial Phase, Part 1
12 books with a reading profile close to The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 5: Imperial Phase, Part 1 by Kieron Gillen. Escapist; an easy read.
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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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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 Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Every ninety years, twelve deities reincarnate as teenagers.
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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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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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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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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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Hogfather
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
On the night of Hogswatch, the Discworld’s version of Santa Claus disappears because the Auditors of Reality have hired an assassin named Teatime to eliminate him.
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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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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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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 Sword of Kaigen
by M.L. Wang
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
On the frozen Takayubi peninsula, the Matsuda clan serves as the Shirojima Empire’s defensive shield, using hereditary water-manipulation techniques to crystallize moisture into lethal ice blades.
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