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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
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
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
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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
A Touch of Death
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
The Other Side of Dawn
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
The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
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
Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods
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
Sweet Tooth, Vol. 5: Unnatural Habitats
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
The Only Harmless Great Thing
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
City of Blades
A retired general is pulled into a covert investigation in a ruined occupied city where war, gods, and violence still linger.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · somber · intense · melancholy · oppressive · emotionally heavy · gritty · heartbreaking
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0756
More Happy Than Not
A Bronx teen considers a memory-erasing procedure that could free him from pain—or erase his true self.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · sad · heartbreaking · hopeful · bittersweet · emotional · intense · raw · heavy · thought-provoking · devastating · moving
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0756
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僕のヒーローアカデミア 32 [Boku no Hero Academia 32]
A worn-down teen hero leaves school and goes rogue to hunt villains while a broken hero society unravels around him.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · tragic · intense · emotional · gritty · suspenseful · hopeful · painful · somber
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0761