If Elspeth’s dangerous bond with the Nightmare and the cost-laden Providence Cards hooked you, you’ll love how Red bargains with the Wilderwood and its Wolf in For the Wolf. The magic here is as treacherous and hungry as the mist that stalks Blunder—every spell demands blood or sacrifice, and love is tangled up in that danger. Like Elspeth and Ravyn moving through fog and rumor, Red and Eammon navigate an eerie wood, ancient legends, and the risk that saving their realm may cost them their souls.

Miss the unnerving intimacy of being inside Elspeth’s head while the Nightmare whispers? The Death of Jane Lawrence delivers that same creeping uncertainty. As Jane moves into Dr. Lawrence’s crumbling home and uncovers ritual magic, her perceptions twist in ways that echo Elspeth’s mental tug-of-war—what’s real, what’s the spell, and what’s the mind turning on itself? It’s gothic, claustrophobic, and steeped in the dread you felt when Elspeth’s choices could invite the Nightmare to the surface.

If the precise, card-driven bargains of Blunder’s Providence magic fascinated you, Mistborn: The Final Empire will scratch the same itch. Allomancy’s metal-based rules are as elegantly constrained as the cards Elspeth wields—specific inputs, sharp trade-offs, and thrilling synergies. Like Ravyn’s covert plots against the crown, Kelsier’s crew mounts a dangerous rebellion that tests the limits of their magic and their trust, delivering the same blend of clever heists, political stakes, and high-tension set pieces.

If you were drawn to the guarded tenderness between Elspeth and Ravyn—the secrets, the banter, the reluctant trust—Serpent & Dove offers a similarly charged dynamic. Lou hides dangerous magic much as Elspeth hides the Nightmare, while Reid’s rigid duty mirrors Ravyn’s obligations to his house. Their forced proximity sparks a romance that evolves through sharp dialogue and high-stakes reveals, all while forbidden magic and church-state politics close in.

If you liked living inside Elspeth’s head—her wry voice shadowed by the Nightmare—and the way secrets fester in locked rooms, Gideon the Ninth delivers a kindred thrill. Gideon’s sardonic narration cuts through a closed-circle puzzle of trials and murders in a decaying mansion, while necromancy’s costs gnaw at body and mind. The prickly, evolving bond between Gideon and Harrow recalls Elspeth’s fraught alliances, mixing barbed banter with moments of aching vulnerability amid deadly magic.