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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for Compound 26. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Tone labels used: tense, emotional, hopeful, dark, compassionate, angsty, thrilling, eerie, clean
Premise labels used: deadly virus, survivor powers, government research facility, vaccine search, ethical conflict, forbidden romance, infected detention, medical crisis
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone + premise embeddings are close.
A teen chosen for an underground virus refuge finds love, then discovers the surface is still deadly.
Why this is here
Tone labels: tense · chilling · emotional · heartbreaking · romantic · suspenseful · creepy · angsty · hopeful · gory · fast-paced
Premise labels: virus outbreak · government lottery · underground shelter · selected survivors · survival romance · post-virus mutation
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1511
Teen survivors on a space station battle grief, shortages, and suspicion when new deaths make a virus or killer seem equally possible.
Why this is here
Tone labels: tense · suspenseful · dark · somber · desperate · atmospheric · chilling · anxious · creepy · emotional
Premise labels: space station · deadly virus · survival · murder mystery · whodunit · leadership crisis · isolation · food shortage · communication breakdown · teen survivors
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1574
A traumatized teen stockpiles for disaster, then must survive a deadly flu outbreak while her town falls apart.
Why this is here
Tone labels: tense · creepy · hopeful · emotional · suspenseful · terrifying · realistic · sad · foreboding
Premise labels: deadly outbreak · viral apocalypse · teen survival · isolation · preparedness · trauma recovery · forced self-reliance · community collapse
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1639
A sister must protect her mentally ill brother as a townwide outbreak turns sanity into a weapon and forces an impossible choice.
Why this is here
Tone labels: tense · dark · uneasy · creepy · emotional · scary · gripping · morally messy · suspenseful · somber
Premise labels: family crisis · outbreak · quarantine · government conspiracy · moral dilemma · save family or world · infectious madness · sibling burden
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1673
Two best friends survive a flu-apocalypse and cross a shattered country to find each other as new powers emerge.
Why this is here
Tone labels: tense · angsty · emotionally charged · dramatic · hopeful · romantic · adventurous · intense · chilling
Premise labels: viral apocalypse · survivor reunion · cross-country search · post-plague survival · changed survivors · developing powers · friendship quest · colony search · rebuild society · find each other
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1688
A teen with dangerous psychic powers escapes a brutal camp and joins other fugitives while hunted by forces seeking to use her.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · haunting · intense · heartbreaking · tense · emotional · eerie · disturbing · hopeful
Premise labels: plague survivors · superpowered teens · government camps · fugitive teens · safe haven quest · secret powers · government target · on the run
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1693
A blogger-journalist team races to expose a vast conspiracy in a zombie-ravaged future as the virus mutates and stakes explode.
Why this is here
Tone labels: intense · dark · bleak · emotional · suspenseful · urgent · satirical · witty · melancholic · bittersweet
Premise labels: virus outbreak · government conspiracy · truth-seeking journalists · post-pandemic society · rescue mission · mutating pathogen · cloning subplot · survival under collapse
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1696
A teen hacker must decode her father’s hidden cure in a post-plague world ruled by gene tech and dangerous secrets.
Why this is here
Tone labels: gripping · tense · dark · creepy · anxious · desperate · disturbing · thrilling · exciting · romantic · atmospheric
Premise labels: deadly plague · vaccine quest · genetic tech · hacker heroine · shadow organization · save humanity · body-hacking · coded message · last hope · survival mission
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1703
A quarantined village’s children, spared by a color-draining plague, struggle to survive, reunite, and find hope.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · grim · bleak · haunting · hopeful · poetic · beautiful · heartbreaking · oppressive · tense · suspenseful · uplifting
Premise labels: mysterious plague · quarantine · survival · found family · young survivors · sibling journey · adult immunity · isolated community · search for cure
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1712
A shy teen journals to an estranged friend as a deadly virus quarantines her island and forces survival, loss, and change.
Why this is here
Tone labels: tense · eerie · bleak · distressing · heartbreaking · realistic · quiet · somber · paranoid · intimate
Premise labels: virus outbreak · quarantine · island isolation · survival under lockdown · community collapse · finding a cure · medical mystery
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1719
In a tech-banned future, three queer teens with dangerous secrets collide to expose a ruler’s lies and stop an epidemic.
Why this is here
Tone labels: atmospheric · lyrical · fast paced · tense · emotional · queer · angsty · heartfelt · hopeful · morally gray
Premise labels: illegal technology · black market medicine · forbidden tech · spy mission · political intrigue · cat-and-mouse · terminal illness · deadly epidemic · forced alliance · secrets
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1745
Captured by a brutal new community, Jess and her friends must survive, keep secrets, and find a way to escape.
Why this is here
Tone labels: emotional · heartbreaking · tense · anxious · heart racing · dark · grim · angsty · suspenseful · exciting · dramatic
Premise labels: captivity · forced community · escape plan · survival · virus aftermath · secret identity · enemy territory · immunity
Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise
Distance: 0.1766
