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Books Like Godly Heathens

Godly Heathens is gods & immortals, why choose / rh & morally grey — sweet (1/5), first-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

Gem Echols, a nonbinary Seminole teen in rural Georgia, has always been haunted by vivid dreams of magic and violence from another life. When a strange girl named Willa Mae arrives in town, Gem learns they are a reincarnated god who once shattered a divine pantheon — and the surviving gods, now reborn as teenagers, are hunting them down. Navigating their turbulent present-day relationships while deadly former siblings close in, Gem must reckon with who they were, who they are, and how much of the past they can outrun.