If what gripped you in Perfected was Ella’s life as a designed “pet” in a gilded cage and the way her value is measured by obedience and beauty, Only Ever Yours sharpens that same blade. You’ll follow freida through a school where girls are literally manufactured and ranked to become wives or concubines for powerful men—echoing Ella’s conditioning under the Congressman’s roof. The competition, surveillance, and punishment for any “imperfection” mirror Ella’s tightrope walk, but with the volume turned up to devastating effect.

If Ella and Penn’s tender, rule-breaking connection pulled you through Perfected, Delirium gives you that same pulse. In a society where love is classified as a disease to be cured, Lena’s growing bond with Alex becomes as risky—and as awakening—as Ella’s secret moments with the Congressman’s son. The clandestine meetings, the mounting danger, and the choice to risk everything for feeling will hit the same emotional beat that made Ella’s rebellion so compelling.

If you were drawn to the close-quarters tension of Ella navigating the Congressman’s mansion, Wither traps you in a similarly lavish prison. Rhine is taken to a rich estate to be a polygamous bride, where every hallway feels like a leash—much like Ella’s carefully supervised existence. The secret alliances, guarded gardens, and daily negotiations for small freedoms echo Ella’s quiet acts of defiance and longing to escape.

If Ella’s status as a manufactured companion—and the Congressman’s political push to normalize it—made you wrestle with ownership and personhood, Never Let Me Go goes straight to the core. Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow up groomed for a purpose that reduces them to assets, mirroring the way Ella is treated as property with a price tag. The quiet revelations and moral weight will land like the uncomfortable truths Ella uncovers about why she was made.

If the bioengineered “pet” concept in Perfected intrigued you—right down to being purchased by the powerful—Beta offers a glossy island utopia with the same unsettling core. Elysia is a teen clone created to serve the elite on Demesne, and as she develops forbidden feelings and memories, her programmed compliance frays—much like Ella’s conditioning dissolves once she bonds with Penn and questions the Congressman’s rules.