If Alana and Marko winning each other’s trust while dodging two empires stole your heart, you’ll love the intimate, cut-to-the-bone correspondence between Red and Blue. Their letters burn with the same defiance and tenderness you saw as Alana carried Hazel through firefights and standoffs, turning enemies’ battle lines into a love story that shouldn’t be possible—yet absolutely is.

Like how Saga shows the hunt from Alana and Marko to The Will and even Prince Robot IV, this novel pivots between Holden’s idealism and Miller’s hardboiled pursuit across the system. That shifting lens delivers the same thrill you got from fleeing aboard a living ship one chapter and, the next, watching implacable pursuers close in—with politics, crime, and catastrophe tightening the noose.

If Lying Cat’s deadpan truths and The Will’s bleak one-liners made you cackle even as things got bloody—say, during the rescue on Sextillion—Murderbot’s sardonic voice will be catnip. It snarks through corporate conspiracies and firefights the way Saga leavens baby-wrangling chaos with gallows jokes, balancing tenderness and terror with impeccable timing.

If the sprawling war between Landfall and Wreath, the Rocketship Forest’s living vessel, and run-ins with figures like Prince Robot IV hooked you, Breq’s mission through the far-flung Radch will scratch the same itch. It blends empire-scale stakes, uncanny tech that feels almost magical, and culture clashes with the focus and heart that made Saga feel huge yet personal.

If you were fascinated by characters like The Will and Prince Robot IV—capable of tenderness and brutality in the same breath—Zan and Jayd’s choices will grip you. Inside decaying world-ships rife with body horror and betrayal, they navigate shifting loyalties with the same ruthless pragmatism you saw when debts were paid in blood and mercy in Saga came with a price.