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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Willow Rose.
Characterization labels used: burned-out doctor, ER doctor, recovering addict, single protagonist, guilt-ridden, self-loathing, lonely, haunted past, imperfect man, good person, steady nurse, mysterious child, traumatized characters, resilient, flawed but decent, fish-out-of-water, caretaker role
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An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed protagonist · blind protagonist · amnesiac protagonist · confused protagonist · caretaker figure · mysterious doctor · doctor-therapist · possibly unreliable caregiver · morally ambiguous character · recovering patient
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1908
A space-rescue doctor investigates a bizarre deep-space accident that threatens an interspecies hospital and its AIs.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · rescue specialist · trauma doctor · chronic pain · disabled protagonist · queer protagonist · introspective protagonist · dedicated professional · competent caregiver · emotionally guarded
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1942
A doctor caught between a collapsing marriage, a sick ruler, and a war-torn future is pulled into a time-bending drug plot.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · physician · surgeon · organ transplant specialist · political leader · hypochondriac leader · addicted spouse · morally conflicted characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1960
A doctor in an asylum follows patient accounts into a disturbing mystery that may reveal madness, truth, or both.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · asylum worker · patients · mentor figure · unreliable protagonist · investigator
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1980
A humanitarian doctor survives an Amazon plane crash and is forced into a brutal, transformative fight to stay alive.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: doctor protagonist · humanitarian · ordinary man · out of element · gradual psychological shift · devolution · primal self · descent into madness · emotionally complex
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2037
An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: psychiatrist · surgeon · scientist · doctor · patient as test subject · violent protagonist · psychotic protagonist · paranoid protagonist · brilliant but unstable · arrogant experts · female doctor · beleaguered psychiatrist · paper-thin characters · limited character development
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2166
An abused teen awakens a rare healing power and enters academy life, where trauma, friendship, and progression collide.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: abused protagonist · trauma survivor · healer protagonist · overpowered MC · sympathetic MC · defensive roommate · damaged characters · psychiatric support · psychologically wounded
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2227
A woman in a hospital remembers an explosion, and a doctor’s questions slowly turn a simple recovery into something darker.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: woman protagonist · doctor · memory loss · disturbed protagonist · ambiguous motives · hidden identity · potentially unreliable narrator · young girl
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2227
A young psychologist is assigned to a rare psychiatric case, and the patient and hospital secrets quickly entangle them both.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: psychologist · teen patient · antihero doctor · angry protagonist · guarded protagonist · traumatized character · childlike character · loner · prickly personality · supportive friend · mysterious antagonist · morally gray
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2230
A new tenant in a New York boarding house befriends the reclusive doctor upstairs and uncovers his chilling secret.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed narrator · writer protagonist · reclusive doctor · eccentric scientist · sickly physician · isolated neighbor · obsessive survivor · well-educated character
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2231
A grief-stricken investigator uses a VR archive of destroyed Pittsburgh to solve a murder that may erase the past itself.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: grieving protagonist · drug-addicted protagonist · damaged antihero · loner · investigator · archivist · marginalized outsider · obsessive protagonist · depressed protagonist · female victims
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2238
After a severe accident, a speech-impaired teen in rehab uncovers disturbing nighttime secrets and changes in himself.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: teen protagonist · injured protagonist · mute protagonist · disabled protagonist · sympathetic protagonist · teen patients · friend group · mysterious patient · troubled patient
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2251
