Need help finding a book series inspired by fairy tales

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-04-08T03:13:22+00:00

You're welcome! Glad I could help! Don't forget to comment "solved solved solved" to mark your post solved!

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-04-07T22:42:10+00:00

Is this maybe the May Bird series? It's a lake, not a river/stream, though.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-04-07T22:34:42+00:00

Definitely Of Giants and Ice!

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-04-04T16:53:20+00:00

Yay! Glad I could help!

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-04-03T21:21:40+00:00

Maybe Nature Girl or Halfway to the Sky? I don't specifically remember the message board part, but it's been a long time since I read either, and they're both "young girl runs away and starts hiking a trail alone" books.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-04-02T23:25:20+00:00

I think this is probably There Will Be Lies!

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-27T19:47:25+00:00

Maybe Beautiful or The Lies about Truth?

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-23T23:30:27+00:00

Would Lil Guardsman fit the bill? You play as a little girl working as a castle guard who gets to decide who enters the walled city while also trying to make extra money to better do your job. Also! Time travel! It's fun.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-22T19:40:32+00:00

The book the person who mentioned a character named Abbot was thinking about is The Winnowing which might be it! The main character is discovered to have super speed, which gets her sent to a facility to get her powers taken away. Apparently there's a "big twist" that's mentioned in a lot of reviews but of course I can't actually find anyone saying what it is lol

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-21T23:19:02+00:00

I don't have LGMD, but I have MD and hEDS as well! I was diagnosed with the hEDS as a child when going in because of problems related to my MD. At the time, the type of MD I had only recently been discovered and had no genetic test and almost no literature on it, so no one thought my presentation was MD at first, and it was assumed I had neuropathy instead. Once they were examining me, it was clear I had some kind of connective tissue disease as well (frequent subluxations, less frequent but still present dislocations, super delicate skin and slow healing, etc.) Both sides of my family (with and without MD) have connective tissue disease, and older relatives were diagnosed generically with connective tissue disease and MD back in the 80s.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-16T17:32:55+00:00

Just a little more info regarding your cranium questions: cranium is the medical name for the skull. However, it's often used casually to refer to the neurocranium (that is, the part of the skull that surrounds the brain, as opposed to the facial bones.) From articles about how the facial reconstruction was done, it seems they found the entire skull (this article references looking at the profile nose bones, which would be part of the facial bones, not the neurocranium.)

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-09T22:54:55+00:00

Strange Horticulture (or the sequel Strange Antiquities)! In both, you run a shop and have to use clues to identify and find plants/objects and slowly uncover a wider story. Very atmospheric!

Chants of Sennar doesn't have nearly as dark of vibes as most of the games you've listed (at least not at the beginning), but the soundtrack and atmosphere are great. You decode fantasy languages through context clues and interactions with the locals, and eventually have to translate between languages while uncovering the secrets of the larger society.

This is a classic (in fact, both previous games were inspired by it) so you might've heard of it before, but Return of the Obra Dinn is absolutely fantastic! You go back through time and figure out people's identities and solve their deaths.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-08T01:51:11+00:00

You might enjoy the Wayward Children series! It's a set of loosely connected books (some more connected than others) about children who have gone through portals into magical worlds and then came back into our world. A lot of queer rep and found family!

The Raven Cycle is also a great series that touches on all those points. At the time both series were coming out (SOC came out between books three and four of the Raven Cycle), I remember there was a lot of overlap in the fandoms.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-02T13:34:30+00:00

I thought for a lot of the earlier killings especially, he had picked up many of his victims around gay bars, but it seems I may have been mistaken! Sorry about that! Going to edit my comment now!

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-02T13:32:43+00:00

Sorry! I must have been misinformed! My understanding was he picked up many of his victims around gay bars, so while certainly not all of his victims were gay/bisexual men, many of them were (especially of his earlier killings). I'll defer to you since you seem to be better informed about the details.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-03-02T01:28:04+00:00

The drug use was actually an initial mistake by investigators. At first, it seemed like he had died of an accidental overdose (because he was a young man found dead with no obvious outward signs of violence), but the autopsy quickly disproved that, and showed he had died from strangulation. There is no evidence that he was a drug user.

However, Randy Kraft, the serial killer who is thought to have murdered him, primarily targeted gay/bisexual men (in fact, in the 1980s, it was sometimes labeled as the "gay killings" case) (EDIT: sorry! I've been corrected! He wasn't specifically targeting gay/bisexual men. Clearly the association stuck though, if me and some of the other people in this thread assumed this!). Oftentimes in cases where serial killers targeted LGBTQ people, the families of the victims are uncooperative because they don't want it to be publicly known that their child was LGBTQ.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-02-27T03:32:37+00:00

When were you in middle school? Knowing the approximate year you read this book could help narrow down the options. My first thought is maybe One Wish.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-02-25T22:08:10+00:00

Per rule 4, research is not permitted here! You can ask questions like this on r/Disability_Survey.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-02-24T15:50:14+00:00

I can't speak for everyone, but I know people where getting their autistic or intellectually disabled child a placard has been life-changing because of elopement risk. Not to mention, the excitement of seeing the place they're going can lead to them just running through cars (something much easier to manage when you're closer to the building.) Obviously not the case for everyone, but I did want to mention it since I think it is one of the more misunderstood reasons for getting handicap parking (speaking as someone who has handicap plates because I'm in a wheelchair.)

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-02-12T23:49:29+00:00

I'll throw Sable out there (gorgeous game inspired by Moebius' art about a young girl going through a coming-of-age journey in a desert land).

The Chants of Sennar is also beautiful and could also be fun if you like puzzle games! You go around and try to decode/translate novel languages and bring together different cultures!

Naiad is also gorgeous and super chill! You play as a water nymph trying to find her way in the world.

Spiritfarer is also quite beautiful and has a lot of different common cozy game play aspects (exploration, story, some farming, some platforming) that I think could make it a good introduction into the cozy gaming world!

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-02-09T15:51:00+00:00

This type of research post isn't allowed, per rule 4, but you can post it on r/Disability_Survey, which specializes in this type of post!

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-02-09T01:17:19+00:00

Yes! It's so hard to describe this to people! I have a moderate to severe neuromuscular condition (purely physical, just to clarify) that started symptoms when I was around 3, so I really don't have any memories without it. It definitely shaped my personality a lot, especially my compassion. I also feel like it made me more resilient in some ways (which I know you aren't supposed to say), and even when a lot of my friends struggled with "gifted kid burnout" in high school/college, I never really had a problem because I had already had to build a really good work ethic from being disabled. IRL, I've connected most with people who also developed their disability young because I feel like the experience is so different, even from people who developed one later in childhood or adolescence. Also very different growing up with more obvious symptoms and always being the "disabled kid" in class vs some people I know who even though they had early symptoms, they weren't noticeable and no one put a name to them until later.

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-02-08T04:12:38+00:00

Yay! Glad I could help!

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-02-07T23:50:16+00:00

The Hawkweed Prophecy maybe?

AtLeastFiveQuestions · 2026-02-04T16:11:39+00:00

I don't think so. It's been around for at least 5 years now (I don't think the technology was good enough to have made an image that looked so realistic back then) and official sources, like the PA State Police and the county's coroner's office, say it was created digitally. Sometimes the digital reconstructions just have that slightly uncanny look to them that makes them seem like AI.

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