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Premise labels used: twin protagonists, family legacy, magical chase, protect the creature, immortality quest, fairy-world discovery, kidnap-and-escape, mystery caper

Setting labels used: contemporary, Ireland, Dalkey Island, Europe, Amsterdam, Verona, Scilly Isles, secret underworld, fairy world, urban fantasy

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Eoin Colfer · 2021 · The Fowl Twins

Myles and Beckett face a revenge-obsessed enemy, ghostly chaos, and fairy complications in a wild final showdown.

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Premise labels: revenge plot · villain pursuit · twins on the run · fairy ally · family adventure · bodyguard companion · impossible escape · magical showdown · death fakeout · rescue mission

Setting labels: contemporary fantasy · London · Tower of London · Thames · Florida · Louisiana · Scilly Isles · human world · fairy world · shared universe

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Distance: 0.1852

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The Vexed Generation

Scott Meyer · 2019 · Magic 2.0

When their parents are frozen and magic surfaces, teenage twins race through a bizarre hidden world to save their family.

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Premise labels: teen protagonists · twins · secret magical world · family mystery · parents in danger · quest · discovering magic · time travel · hidden past · next generation · mystery · on the run · save parents

Setting labels: modern day · alternate reality · magical world · time travel · computer simulation · Victorian England · wizard community · amusement park

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Distance: 0.2187

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The Last Adventure of Constance Verity

A. Lee Martinez · 2016 · Constance Verity

A world-saving adventurer tries to quit destiny by killing her fairy godmother and claiming an ordinary life.

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Premise labels: chosen one · reluctant hero · destiny vs free will · normal life · identity crisis · fairy godmother curse · one last mission · save the world · break the spell · kill the fairy godmother

Setting labels: contemporary fantasy · urban setting · alternate realities · outer space · time travel · multiverse · Earth · fantastical reality · secret conspiracies

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Distance: 0.2289

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The Time Paradox

Eoin Colfer · 2008 · Artemis Fowl

Artemis must time-travel with fairy allies to save his dying mother, facing his younger self and a dangerous poacher.

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Premise labels: time travel · time paradox · save mother · cure quest · extinct species · past self confrontation · antihero redemption · rescue mission

Setting labels: Ireland · present day · past timeline · time travel world · magical reality · urban fantasy setting

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Distance: 0.2319

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Aerie

Maria Dahvana Headley · 2016 · Magonia

Aza is pulled between Earth and Magonia when a dangerous rescue plan and family conflict send her back into the skies.

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Premise labels: return home · dual worlds · identity crisis · fugitive heroine · forbidden/complicated romance · legendary weapon quest · family conflict · save the world

Setting labels: earth · sky world · Magonia · other worlds · fantasy world · contemporary-adjacent · capital city

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Distance: 0.2360

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Stranger Things Happen

Kelly Link · 2001

Eleven strange, fairy-tale-inflected stories where ghosts, myths, and ordinary life blur into eerie dream logic.

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Premise labels: fairy tale retellings · ghost stories · supernatural encounters · dream logic · alternate reality · underworld quest · modern myth · cautionary tale · strange event · unresolved mystery

Setting labels: contemporary setting · fantastical reality · liminal spaces · underworld · New York City · haunted house · rural Gothic · alternative world · fairy tale world · apocalyptic setting

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Distance: 0.2381

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Walking on Glass

Iain Banks · 2012

Three apparently separate lives in London and a surreal castle edge toward a strange, unsettling convergence.

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Premise labels: triple narrative · interwoven stories · parallel lives · love pursuit · paranoia · imprisonment · riddle quest · escape puzzle · collision course

Setting labels: 1980s London · London · contemporary city · surreal castle · alternate reality · fantasy realm · space-time oddity · prison setting · book castle · bioluminescent fish · urban realism · speculative landscape

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Distance: 0.2427

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Being a Green Mother

Piers Anthony · 1988 · Incarnations of Immortality

A musician’s quest for a world-changing song draws her through prophecy, love, and the power to become Nature.

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Premise labels: quest narrative · magical music · prophecy · chosen role · incarnation · fated marriage · power of song · search for hidden song

Setting labels: modern world · fantasy world · Europe · Ireland · India · United States · circus setting · traveling community · mythic reality · urban fantasy setting · mixed mythic-modern setting

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Distance: 0.2427

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Anchored

Bridget E. Baker · 2021 · Anchored

A runaway teen wakes between Earth and a hidden world, where her secret power could save—or doom—both realities.

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Premise labels: dual worlds · alternate reality · hidden power · secret identity · runaway · missing past · dream world · worlds colliding · prophecy · chosen one · interworld connection · two-life protagonist

Setting labels: Earth · Terra · alternate reality · contemporary setting · fantasy realm · parallel worlds · urban fantasy setting · mythic world

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Distance: 0.2444

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The Box and the Dragonfly

Ted Sanders · 2015 · The Keepers

A curious boy follows a sign with his name to a hidden warehouse and is drawn into a dangerous conflict over magical objects.

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Premise labels: chosen one · hidden world · magical artifact · secret society · ancient conflict · power bond · kid hero · dual powers · quest

Setting labels: contemporary Chicago · hidden magical world · secret warehouse · underground setting · school-age world · parallel reality · urban fantasy · time travel

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Distance: 0.2455

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The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence

Stan Lee, Stuart Moore · 2015 · Zodiac Legacy

A Chinese American teen gains tiger powers and races worldwide to stop a villain from collecting the Zodiac’s magic.

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Premise labels: zodiac powers · superpowered kids · world chase · team quest · power hunt · chosen hosts · magical powers

Setting labels: contemporary world · global travel · Hong Kong · museum setting · international adventure · secret underground area · real-world fantasy

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Distance: 0.2464

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Child of Light

Terry Brooks · 2021 · Viridian Deep

A teen escapes a brutal goblin prison and enters a hidden Fae realm, where her lost identity and future begin to unravel.

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Premise labels: prison escape · amnesia · identity quest · hidden heritage · Fae world · fated romance · self-discovery

Setting labels: goblin prison · wasteland · hidden fae homeland · magical enclave · human world · lush jungle setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2495

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