If what gripped you in Rakesfall was the way two figures keep colliding across splintered histories—trading blade-streak moments, hidden notes, and near-misses as wars rewrite reality—then you’ll fall hard for the letter-duel between Red and Blue. Their clandestine dispatches bloom from taunts into intimacy as they sabotage rival timelines, hop eras, and turn each assassination into a love note that risks the war itself.

Loved the way Rakesfall drifts through uncanny cities where rules feel arbitrary until they break—and the state tries to pin dreams to paperwork? In Amatka, Vanja audits a remote colony where words literally hold the world together. As labels peel and language erodes, reality softens into the same unsettling, tender strangeness you tasted in those reality-slippages and quiet rebellions.

If the colonial machinery and counter-movements in Rakesfall stuck with you—the tax ledgers as weapons, the secret cells, the way empire rewrites lives—Baru’s story cuts to the bone. She joins the empire that conquered her home, climbs its ranks through ruthless arithmetic, and turns its own systems against it, even as every victory demands a heartbreaking personal price.

If you enjoyed how Rakesfall plays with storytelling itself—history as palimpsest, myth whispering through the margins, reality bent by the tale being told—Leckie’s god-narrator will thrill you. The Strength and Patience of the Hill recounts ages of bargains, wars, and carefully chosen words, revealing how utterances become power and how a story can unmake a throne.

If the many-lived recursion in Rakesfall—returning to moments with new memory, meeting old lovers in new selves, tugging at fate’s knots—hooked you, Harry August delivers that itch. He’s born, lives, dies, and is born again with all his memories, joining a secret network to police time’s ripples while hunting the friend whose ambition might end the world.