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Books like The Blade Itself 2001
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About The Blade Itself
Books closest to The Blade Itself
The Heroes 2011Also classical in form
A Little Hatred 2019Also classical in form
The Trouble with Peace 2020Also classical in form
The Thorn of Emberlain 2012Also classical in form
The Wicked King 2019Also classical in form
Before they are hanged 2007Also classical in form
The Black Company 1984Also classical in form
Dread Nation 2018Also classical in form
Innamorata 2026Also classical in form
The Ruin of Kings 2019Also classical in form
Wolverine: Old Man Logan 2009Also classical in form
The same feel, in other forms
Series
Saga of Tanya the Evil 2017Also classical in form
Films
Scanners 1981Also classical in form
Land of the Dead 2005Also classical in form
The Blue Max 1966Also classical in form
Games
Dragon Age II 2011Also classical in form
Mortal Shell II 2026Also classical in form
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree 2025Also classical in form
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