If the moral weight of Citra and Rowan carrying rings that grant immunity and the authority to "glean" gripped you—especially the contrast between Scythe Faraday’s restraint and Scythe Goddard’s spectacle—then you’ll be riveted by how ordinary people in The Power suddenly gain the ability to inflict lethal force and must decide how to use it. Like the Scythedom’s commandments and Conclave debates, Alderman’s world forces characters to confront whether power can be wielded justly—or whether it inevitably corrupts.

If you were drawn to Citra and Rowan’s apprenticeship under Scythe Faraday—the tests, the discipline, and the way a mentor’s code can forge or break a student—then the training of Locke and the Gentlemen Bastards under Father Chains will hit the same nerve. Much like Faraday’s quiet rigor versus Goddard’s flashy cruelty, Chains teaches elegant, rule-bound craft in a city where others prefer brutality, leading his protégés into high-stakes moral choices that echo the Scythedom’s trials.

If the Scythedom’s Conclave maneuvering—votes that pit Citra and Rowan against each other, alliances around figures like Goddard, and laws the Thunderhead won’t touch—kept you turning pages, Red Rising delivers that same knife-edge intrigue. Darrow must navigate an elite order whose pageantry disguises vicious contests, scheming rivals, and ideological battles over who deserves authority, much like the competing visions of what a Scythe should be.

If the way Scythe probes death in a world where the Thunderhead has ended natural dying—leaving Scythes to "manage" mortality—stuck with you, Ishiguro’s novel offers a haunting counterpoint. As Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy uncover the purpose their society has assigned them, the book asks the same questions Citra wrestles with: what a life is worth, whether compassion can survive a system built on sacrifice, and how moral codes bend under institutional necessity.

If you loved watching Citra and Rowan move from wary competitors to something more—tested by rigged trials, divided loyalties, and a system eager to turn them into enemies—Legend offers that same spark. June and Day start on opposite sides of an authoritarian state but, like Citra granting Rowan immunity even as the Conclave pits them against each other, they’re driven together by uneasy trust, sharp intellect, and revelations that upend everything they’ve been taught.