If you loved how Amora bolts from courtly confines onto Bastian’s ship and races across Visidia to stop a forbidden-magic uprising, you’ll click with Alosa’s high-velocity hunt for a hidden map aboard enemy decks. The heists, sea battles, and razor-edged banter land with the same rush as Amora, Ferrick, and Vataea knifing through cursed waters—quick hits of danger, secrets, and flirtation that never slow down.

Amora’s soul magic is powerful but perilous, and the way it tempts and scars her will feel familiar in Tea’s rise as a bone witch who can pull the dead back—and pay for it. Like the consequences of forbidden spells that shadow Amora’s voyage and the usurper’s growing threat, Tea’s craft is intoxicating, political, and dark enough to draw lines in blood.

If Amora’s transformation—from a sheltered heir who botches her public trial to a captain-in-spirit who takes the helm beside Bastian—hooked you, you’ll love Elisa’s arc from uncertain princess to battle-forged leader. Both heroines shoulder a kingdom’s future, wrestle with sacred, unruly power, and grow into the kind of queens who choose their path instead of inheriting it.

Visidia’s unrest—governors scheming, outlawed magic, and a would-be usurper—mirrors the lethal court maneuvering on the isles of Fennbirn. If the backroom deals Amora uncovers between voyages and the knife’s-edge loyalties aboard Bastian’s ship gripped you, the rival queens’ poisonings, alliances, and betrayals will scratch that same political itch.

Amora’s coming-of-age—fleeing after a failed rite, testing herself on the open sea with Vataea and Bastian, and redefining what it means to rule—parallels Maia’s disguised journey through impossible trials to save her family and kingdom. If you enjoyed watching Amora grow into her power while romance simmers under pressure, Maia’s quest and her delicate, dangerous bond with Edan will resonate.