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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands.
Tone labels used: dark, heartbreaking, haunting, sad, gritty, poignant, emotional, grim, hopeful, disturbing, raw, rueful
Focused on “tender” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
A sheltered hybrid boy leaves the woods with a dangerous guardian in a bleak post-plague world.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · sad · grim · dark · somber · eerie · heartbreaking · tender · gritty · bittersweet · tense · unsettling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0733
A foster teen surviving a vanished world confronts gangs, scarcity, and mysterious giant visitors she cannot understand.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · melancholy · haunting · hopeful · poignant · emotional · tender · unsettling · grim · bittersweet · reflective
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0816
After a blood test sends him to an isolated house for “Defectives,” Toby faces illness, fear, and first love.
Why this is here
Tone labels: melancholy · bittersweet · creepy · dark · tender · hopeful · heartbreaking · tense · poignant · emotional
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0825
A grieving scientist hides her infected husband while racing a covert lab to find a cure after a zombie outbreak.
Why this is here
Tone labels: heartbreaking · sad · bleak · chilling · unsettling · emotional · tender · intimate · stressful · grim · atmospheric · dark
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0849
Two sisters with time-bending powers race through possible realities as grief, family trauma, and fate collide.
Why this is here
Tone labels: haunting · bleak · heartbreaking · melancholy · angry · raw · emotional · dark · beautiful · terrifying
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0636
An amnesiac girl must survive a brutal outpost, evade robotic law enforcers, and uncover who she was.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · gritty · harsh · tense · hopeless · desperate · haunting · heartbreaking · mysterious · emotional · poetic · dramatic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0669
In a brutal far-future kingdom, two mismatched fugitives flee into mutant-haunted wilderness after a mysterious infection upends their lives.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · gritty · tense · harrowing · emotional · heartbreaking · angsty · brutal · oppressive · haunting
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0671
As war nears its end, Ellie is separated from her friends and pushed through capture, escape, and a final fight for survival.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · harrowing · gritty · harsh · melancholy · bittersweet · heartbreaking · tense · emotional · realistic · raw
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0684
A frame-told alien history traces the doomed fall of a peaceful species as war, betrayal, and resistance collide.
Why this is here
Tone labels: tragic · dark · bleak · heartbreaking · bittersweet · haunting · somber · hopeful · brutal · devastating
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0700
A post-apocalyptic graphic novel volume splits between a 1911 plague origin and a present-day push toward Alaska.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · somber · tragic · violent · emotional · mysterious · gritty · unsettling · heartbreaking
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0739
A poetic alternate history braiding radium poisoning and elephant cruelty into a fierce story of memory, rage, and justice.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · tragic · haunting · angry · wrenching · brutal · sorrowful · bittersweet · devastating · fierce · poignant · uneasy · unsettling · powerful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0754
