Books Like The Priory of the Orange Tree
If The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 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.
The Mermaid's Wrath
Andie Holman
**Discovery Editors' Choice Award 2025 Silver Medal in the General Fantasy Fiction Readers' Favorite Awards 2026.** This is not the little mermaid you grew up with. The Pacific Mers clan lives within a magical bubble for their protection, isolating them from humanity and the Surfecti, the magical people on land. Jelly is a Warrior Mermaid, able to pass through the barrier and explore the outer world. She wears a family heirloom, a teardrop black pearl at her throat, not knowing it has a hidden power. When she stares at a wall of plastic bottles in a superstore, becoming more furious by the second, the pearl wakes in response to her anger. She loses control. She'll be punished for this. But the pearl isn't done, and sets her on a journey to work with the estranged Surfecti. It's a mission she's not equipped to handle, requiring a cool head, something she's never had. Even worse, there's someone who desperately wants her pearl, and he will do anything to get it. And Jelly is in his way. * A climate-driven romantasy adventure set in the contemporary Pacific Ocean and surface world. The tone balances ecological horror with found-family warmth, slow-burn romance, and consistent comic relief. Described as “The Hunger Games” meets “Moana."
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Of Shadows and Justice
Liam Homhire
When a Dire Wolf warrior is murdered by the very system she tried to expose, her resurrection becomes a curse—bound in a necromantic puppet-body, stripped of agency, controlled by forces she doesn't understand. Alongside an undead rabbit oracle prone to drunk philosophy, a reluctant assemblage of misfits and survivors must untangle a conspiracy that reaches far deeper than any single death, navigating a world where justice is as fragmented as the characters seeking it. Liam Homhire weaves together dark comedy and genuine grief, unreliable narrators and moments of strange grace, building toward catharsis through a ticking-clock mystery that demands everything from those the world has already discarded. This is a story about the cost paid by the small, the redemption found in unlikely bonds, and the messy, incomplete work of making things right.
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