Books Like Six of Crows
If Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo worked for you, these indie books offer a similar reading experience. The comparison comes from AI analysis of each full manuscript (pacing, tone, tropes, and more), not from marketing copy.
WorldWind
Brett Schneider
Sixteen-year-old Zuma “Z” Alexander is grieving her father, fighting with her mother, and barely holding herself together when she chases a legendary green flash across the Pacific on a kiteboard. Instead of finding light, Z finds a doorway. Pulled into Vindurheim, a flooded world of rival seafaring peoples, ancient prophecy, monstrous creatures, and brutal war, Z is stranded far from Earth with no obvious way home. Her only advantages are a dead phone, her talent for kitesurfing, a stubborn refusal to stay out of trouble, and fragments of knowledge from a world far more technologically advanced than this one. As Z becomes entangled in a conflict between the Paskari and Vin-Paskari, she must decide whether finding her way home matters more than saving the people who have given her something she thought she had lost: purpose. WorldWind is a YA portal fantasy adventure about grief, survival, found family, and discovering that sometimes the way forward begins by being blown completely off course.
Fantasy
The Quill and the Vial
Bree Moore
She's an apothecary determined to cure an incurable plague. He's her loyal best friend, hopelessly in love with her. The problem? She's in love with someone else. And Nels would cross an entire kingdom to help her save that man—even if it breaks his own heart. 🌿 The Quill and the Vial— a plant-magic fantasy with friends-to-lovers yearning, impossible choices, and a hero worth falling for.
Adventure
Between Two Worlds
Joseph Estevez
Liam Merr doesn't live on a normal island. Ghosts occupy their former dwellings, wizards sell their magical products in town centres, and a tyrannical king known as the Ra rules over its inhabitants. A mysterious man known as the rabbin takes Liam under his wing to teach him about his people's forgotten traditions. Liam expects to live a simple life as a loyal subject to the Ra, but his identity and inheritance have so much more in store.
Adventure
A Study of Shattered Spells
Josiah DeGraaf
Only teachers know what really happens at a magic school… Chintor Academy is celebrated as the place where the best music mages are forged. But beneath the surface, bullies rule with cruelty, teachers scheme against each other, and the student destined to save their nation is far from ready. Kalina didn’t know what she was getting into when she agreed to teach at Chintor. Now, as a first-year teacher, she’s tasked with finishing the training of this prophesied violinist. Their nation’s sworn enemies are nearing victory, and she has mere months to prepare him before their country collapses. When Kalina uncovers the abuse of a vulnerable student, she’s thrust into a dangerous dilemma. Exposing the school’s underbelly means she’ll be fired and unable to prepare their hero. Keeping quiet means her students will suffer. The fate of the nation—and her soul—hangs in the balance.
Adventure
Embers in the SALT
Klood P. Trouvay
Syra, known in the fighting pits as the “Greykiss,” is a survivor forged in blood and water. Now she wants nothing more than to be left alone, but in the corrupt city of New Merserat, a monster’s reputation is a debt that’s never paid. When her past returns in the form of her old patron, Syra is dragged back into the violent games of the powerful. Then there is Lienne—a seemingly ordinary young librarian troubled by unexplained headaches, with an inconvenient habit of seeing past Syra’s scars and reputation. When Syra accepts a security contract from House Saltbird to guard its remote, brine-soaked Salt Field, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with a mercenary crew that sees her as a liability, while a threat she cannot yet name begins to emerge beyond the camp. As fear closes in and the mystery deepens, Syra must confront more than the ghosts of her past. She must decide whether survival still means keeping everyone at a distance—or whether protecting the one person she never meant to need is worth the risk of becoming vulnerable. Embers in the SALT is a gritty, atmospheric, character-driven dark fantasy of hard-edged action, morally gray choices, and two women learning to trust in a world that gives them every reason not to. “Polished, intuitive fantasy debut driven by unforgettable characters.” — BOOKLIFE REVIEWS, Editor’s Pick “Embers in the SALT has everything: high stakes, an exquisitely-rendered setting, a flawed yet likable protagonist, and a conflict worth seeing through to the end.” — THE BOOKLIFE PRIZE · 9.75/10
Dark Fantasy
Wraithbound
HL Hopkins
Daisy Hartridge has never been good at life—but she's spectacularly bad at it when she is dragged through a dimensional rift into a world of wraiths and wraith riders. Thrust into Artonia, where her emotions literally take physical form. Three powerful wraiths that she must bond with, or lose. For the other riders, duty, control and routine are everything, and with her head full of chaotic brain-squirrels, those are definitely not areas she excels in. She can't even get to class on time! But as she's forced to navigate a conspiracy that reaches deeper than anyone realises, against a ticking clock none of them fully understand, she gains a creeping suspicion that, for once, she might actually be the only one equipped to stop it. With a found family of deeply flawed allies at her side, Daisy stumbles toward answers—and the uncomfortable truth that saving Artonia might require taking a closer look at herself first. Content Warnings Explained: Child Abuse - relationship between a child and caregiver featuring coercive control and verbal bullying. Graphic Violence/Gore - briefly features a character being shot, with a short reference to bloodshed. Mental Health Crisis - relates to a key character's struggle with guilt and self.
Fantasy
Tabitha Unleashed
Robert W Adams
“I’ll risk anything to save her. Even the secret of what I am.” Tabitha Griffin has plenty of things making her life hell—guilt, fear, shame, that suicide attempt thing, and her twin sister’s cancer. But nothing terrifies her more than being the center of attention. So naturally, she enters the biggest televised talent competition in the country to win the million-dollar prize that could save her sister’s life. There’s just one problem. Tabitha isn’t performing an illusion. The impossible things she does on stage are real. As the competition turns her into a national sensation, Tabitha finds friendship, first love, and a reason to believe she might deserve a future after all. But when a growing political movement turns her into an unwilling symbol of queer resistance, every secret she’s fought to protect begins unraveling. It’s all a distraction from winning the competition. But as her two worlds collide, Tabitha must choose which secrets to keep, which to reveal—and to whom. Because saving her sister’s life is the only way to save her own.
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