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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for In Any Lifetime.
Themes labels used: love and loss, grief, fate vs free will, obsession, revenge, acceptance, moral cost, consequences, determinism, sacrifice, identity, moving on, desperation, ethical ambiguity, collateral damage
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
A quiet teen in a guarded valley learns a forbidden visit signals a friend’s death and must choose between duty and love.
Why this is here
Themes labels: fate vs free will · grief · loss · regret · consequences · moral responsibility · ethics · time · memory · choice · obedience · conformity · regret and possibility · butterfly effect · love and sacrifice · identity · belonging · social control · life choices
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0849
A grief-stricken teen chases her father’s killer across parallel worlds and gets pulled into a love triangle.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · revenge · trust · identity · fate · free will · love · loyalty · family · ethical science · consequences · alternate possibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0939
A teen with rare psychic powers trains to kill her parents’ murderer while her loyalty is split by romance, secrets, and war.
Why this is here
Themes labels: revenge · free will · trust · loyalty · identity · moral ambiguity · choice · grief · betrayal · coming of age · power and control · government abuse · trauma · love versus vengeance · social fear of difference
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0963
A teen empath must hunt a dangerous enemy while time fractures worsen and his own powers expand.
Why this is here
Themes labels: consequences · free will · fate · grief · memory · identity · responsibility · sacrifice · control of time · love versus duty · trust · emotional healing
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0968
A grief-stricken man uses time travel to try to save his murdered wife and unborn child, but the past resists.
Why this is here
Themes labels: loss · regret · love and memory · obsession · free will · fate · irreversibility · trauma · revenge · honesty and secrecy · parenthood · social precarity · gendered suffering · meaning of love · moral compromise
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1020
A grieving widower gets a chance to save his wife, while the Doctor races to stop the Weeping Angels from rewriting time.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · loss · regret · mourning · acceptance · fate · free will · consequences · memory · love · sacrifice · time and change
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1038
A young man whose life keeps rewriting itself chases the cause of his erased past and a risky future love.
Why this is here
Themes labels: choice and consequence · personal responsibility · destiny · moral dilemma · loss · love versus duty · identity · memory · free will · selfishness · sacrifice · loneliness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1041
A grieving writer meets a woman who looks exactly like his missing love, forcing him into a deadly mystery.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · closure · love and loyalty · guilt · identity · truth and deception · redemption · obsession · good and evil · free will · morality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1051
A betrayed heir wages war across a mythic galaxy, guided by a sentient warship, as family secrets and gods collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: grief · rage · betrayal · revenge · family · fate · free will · war · justice · loyalty · identity · acceptance · power · morality · loss · secrets · deception · love vs hatred
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1059
A reluctant time traveler joins a future-run rescue mission in 1873 Paris, where a burning opera house and shifting timelines collide.
Why this is here
Themes labels: free will · causality · timeline change · consequences · fate · memory · loss · redemption · identity · family bonds · moral responsibility · choice · grief · healing · trust · human connection · observer effect · personal growth · reluctant duty · repairing the past
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1067
A trapped teen must rewrite a ruined future by traveling into the past to stop the invention that caused it.
Why this is here
Themes labels: choices and consequences · moral ambiguity · sacrifice · love and loss · friendship · identity · growing up · regret · free will · fate · good intentions · corruption · power and responsibility · ethics of murder · changing the past · hope · self-acceptance · loyalty · ambition
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1085
A weary heroine returns to the Land to rescue her son and confront a changed Thomas Covenant amid time-bending dangers.
Why this is here
Themes labels: fate and fatalism · self-esteem · self-doubt · identity · betrayal · trust · love · loss · despair · hope · responsibility · moral choice · truth and deception · loneliness · sacrifice · memory · history · power · survival
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.1109
