You absolutely refuse. You didn’t ask for this. No one prepared you to be “the one.” Prophecies aren’t even real, and there are a thousand other people more qualified for the peril and great adventure and brushes with death that no doubt await you. You’d much rather stay at home and live a quiet life, please and thank you. No, no, you will not be persuaded from your decision. Find another chosen one. This list is dedicated to you, who opted out of answering the call of the chosen one. To all of the prophesied and fated chosen ones who took one look at their future responsibilities and took a hard pass. Not every anti-chosen one on this list was able to fully turn away; after all, some reasons to answer the call are too compelling to ignore (the death and destruction of everything you love is a difficult one to shrug off), but it took a LOT OF CONVINCING to get you to agree, and by god you weren’t going to make it easy on them for upending your entire life when you did not ask for this, but fine, have it your way I guess. Here are eight books about chosen ones who absolutely refused their call (at least at first). And there we are! Quite a mixture of reluctant chosen ones, chosen ones who flat out refuse, and unchosen ones taking up the reigns when the chosen one couldn’t.
The Chosen One: 18 of the Best Fantasy Novels for Adults Choose a Better Chosen One
