If the Agon’s seven-year hunt and Lore’s uneasy pact with a wounded Athena grabbed you, you’ll love how American Gods drops deities into everyday America to scheme, bargain, and bleed. Like seeing Athena stagger into a Manhattan townhouse, Shadow’s road-trip with Mr. Wednesday peels back a world where myths hustle for relevance and survival—every alliance a gamble, every favor a trap.

You enjoyed Lore navigating secret houses and blood-oaths through Manhattan streets while the Agon raged—City of Bones gives you a similarly concealed New York teeming with demon hunters, ancient vendettas, and deadly inheritances. As Clary digs into her lineage, the revelations and turf wars echo Lore’s plunge back into a world she swore off.

If you were compelled by Lore’s cutthroat choices—allying with a fallen goddess, weighing revenge against survival—Adelina’s descent in The Young Elites will hit that same nerve. She builds power inside brutal factions, makes perilous bargains, and blurs the line between savior and monster in ways that recall Lore’s most ruthless moments.

If Lore’s sprint through the Agon—the ambushes in NYC streets, sudden reversals, and knife’s-edge escapes—kept you up late, Red Queen offers that same throttle-open momentum. Mare’s thrown into a lethal court where every alliance snaps under pressure and double-crosses land as hard as Lore’s blood-soaked house clashes.

If you reveled in the secrets around Castor and the way alliances flip—like Lore’s uneasy deal with Athena—The Cruel Prince is a feast of blindsides. Jude navigates treacherous courts where loyalties twist mid-sentence, plans detonate, and power grabs come with the kind of shocking turns that made the Agon so unpredictable.