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Rachelle Dekker

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These books are ranked using the characterization + relationships labels extracted for When Through Deep Waters. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Characterization labels used: grieving mother, guilt-ridden protagonist, unreliable perception, eccentric grandmother, supportive friend, controlling mother, complex antagonist, therapist character, psychiatrist character, emotionally isolated

Relationships labels used: mother-daughter conflict, childhood friendship, supportive friendship, marital strain, family blame, caregiver support, motherly surrogate, authority conflict

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization + relationships embeddings are close.

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Cover of Sweet Virginia by Caroline Kepnes

Sweet Virginia

Caroline Kepnes · 2020

A frustrated wife and new mother falls into a Hallmark-fueled escape fantasy that turns darkly surreal.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1223

Cover of But Won't I Miss Me by Tiffany Tsao

But Won't I Miss Me

Tiffany Tsao · 2026

In a world where childbirth creates a replacement self, a new mother’s failed rebirth exposes the cost of motherhood.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1312

Cover of Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman

Knife Edge

Malorie Blackman · 2005 · Noughts and Crosses

In a racist near-future society, a grieving young mother and a vengeful brother move toward a devastating reckoning.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1330

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Before Mars

Emma Newman · 2018 · Planetfall

A Mars geologist-artist confronts memory gaps, a false note, and a suspected conspiracy while doubting her own mind.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1338

Cover of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Marisa Crane · 2023

A grieving queer mother raises a child marked by a punitive shadow system in a surveilled near-future America.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1348

Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

Hum

Helen Phillips · 2024

After losing her job to AI, a mother takes a risky deal that buys her family a brief escape into a climate-ravaged, overtracked future.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1391

Cover of This Fragile Earth by Susannah Wise

This Fragile Earth

Susannah Wise · 2021

In near-future London, a mother and son flee as a tech-dependent society suddenly shuts down.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1393

Cover of The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love

The Possibilities

Yael Goldstein-Love · 2023

A new mother’s search for her vanished baby opens into a multiverse where every version of her life feels dangerously real.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1419

Cover of Hey, Zoey by Sarah Crossan

Hey, Zoey

Sarah Crossan · 2024

A woman’s life unravels after she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll and begins confronting buried truths.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1445

Cover of The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail

The Cats We Meet Along the Way

Nadia Mikail · 2022

A grieving teen joins a Malaysian road trip to find her estranged sister before an unavoidable apocalypse arrives.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1447

Cover of Concept M by Aafke Romeijn

Concept M

Aafke Romeijn · 2017

In near-future Netherlands, a chronically ill young woman is pulled toward radical politics as her society strains under a costly disease.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1450

Cover of Sealed by Naomi Booth

Sealed

Naomi Booth · 2017

A heavily pregnant woman flees a polluted city, only to find danger, doubt, and bodily horror following her into the countryside.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.1462