If what gripped you in Gilded Cage was the stark divide between the powerless commoners doing their Slavedays and the Skilled Jardines at Kyneston, you'll feel right at home in Red Queen. Like the Hadleys navigating a world rigged against them, Mare Barrow is thrust into the glittering, lethal court of Silver nobles whose abilities and politics can crush anyone born Red. The court pageantry hides the same kind of treacherous bargains and sudden, brutal demonstrations of power that you saw when Abi tried to survive Kyneston and Luke learned the cost of resistance in Millmoor.

If you enjoyed the knife-edge politicking around Parliament, the manipulations of Lord Whittam Jardine, and the quiet espionage threads Abi tangles with in Gilded Cage, The Traitor Baru Cormorant turns that impulse up to eleven. Baru wages war through finance, law, and marriage pacts the way the Jardines wield the Skill—toppling factions with a ledger and a smile. Expect the same cold calculus and moral compromises that made Silyen’s experiments and Jenner’s complicity so unsettling, only channeled into a relentless campaign of intrigue.

If Silyen’s chilling curiosity, Gavar’s brutal protectiveness, and Jenner’s quiet betrayals fascinated you in Gilded Cage, you’ll love how Vicious embraces that same moral murk. Victor Vale and Eli Ever gain extraordinary abilities and promptly prove that power doesn’t make anyone nobler—much like the Skilled who use the slaveday system to entrench their dominance. You’ll get the same intoxicating mix of charm and menace that made every Jardine scene feel like a loaded pistol on the table.

If you liked how Gilded Cage hopped between Abi, Luke, Silyen, and Gavar to reveal the system from the manor at Kyneston to the grind of Millmoor, The City of Brass does a similar dance. Through Nahri and Prince Ali’s perspectives, you’ll slip into Daevabad’s gilded palaces and its marginalized quarters, watching political rifts widen with each secret and slight—much like the Hadleys and Jardines exposing the fractures of an unequal Britain from opposite sides of the gate.

If the alternate Britain of Gilded Cage—where the Skilled rewrite the social contract and the unskilled pay in Slavedays—hooked you, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians spins an earlier era of that same tension. As Pitt, Wilberforce, and Toussaint navigate revolutions, abolition, and magical restraints, you’ll see the kind of legal and moral battles that echo Abi’s hopes and Luke’s defiance, but fought on a grand historical stage where every statute and spell reshapes who gets to be free.