Find your next book by how it makes you feel
Semantica reads the emotional DNA of a story and matches you on mood, pacing, and theme — not just the genre printed on the spine.
How it works
Three steps, and none of them are “browse a genre page and hope”.
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Tell us what you love
Pick a handful of books you'd re-read, a few you bounced off, and the moods you're drawn to.
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We read the books
Every story is split into passages and mapped into a shared meaning space, then scored for emotion, pacing, and theme.
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Get matches that fit
We compare the shape of your taste against the shape of each book — not its genre label — and show you why each match landed.
What you get
Everything here works on the shape of a story, not its blurb.
Search by feeling
Ask for “quietly devastating”, “found family”, or “dread that builds slowly”. Semantica reads meaning, not keywords, so you don't have to know the title you're looking for.
Emotional DNA
Every book gets a sentiment arc, a pacing score, and its dominant themes — so you can see whether a story is a slow burn or a sprint before you commit 400 pages to it.
Your reading profile
Tell us six things about how you like to read. We build a taste profile from it and match new books against the shape of what you already love.
Book soundtracks
Each chapter's mood becomes a run of tracks, so the music shifts as the story does. In beta while we finish tuning the chapter sync.
Six questions. Then a shelf that actually sounds like you.
Building your reading profile takes about two minutes.
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