If Juliette’s flood of startling metaphors and struck-through thoughts in Shatter Me made you feel every heartbeat—like when her touch is described as both poison and prayer—you’ll sink into Delirium. Oliver’s language wraps even simple moments in lyrical intensity, much like Juliette narrating her first fragile freedoms after the cell. And as Lena questions a regime that outlaws love, you’ll recognize the same collision of tenderness and danger that Juliette feels when her lethal power collides with Adam’s unexpected gentleness.

If Juliette’s crossed-out lines and fragmented diary-like narration pulled you inside her spiraling headspace in Shatter Me, Illuminae takes that daring presentation even further. Told through redacted files, hacked chats, and AI logs, it weaponizes format the way Juliette’s voice did—turning form into feeling. As secrets detonate and a ruthless authority hunts survivors, you’ll get the same breathless momentum you felt when Juliette and Adam fled The Reestablishment’s experiments.

If the militarized control of The Reestablishment—Warner’s tests, the tracking, the threat of being used for your own abilities—hooked you in Shatter Me, The Darkest Minds hits the same nerve. Ruby’s lethal powers make her as dangerous to others as Juliette’s touch, and her escape from a government camp echoes Juliette and Adam’s breakout. You’ll recognize the tense road survival, the bonds forged under fire, and the fear of what your power makes you become.

If Warner’s magnetism in Shatter Me—the way he’s both captor and confidant, cruel and oddly tender—fascinated you, The Young Elites revels in that moral gray. Adelina’s power is as frightening and intoxicating as Juliette’s, and the men around her wield ambition and affection with the same blade. You’ll be drawn to characters who, like Warner, make choices that are seductive, strategic, and sometimes unforgivable.

If the charged, perilous chemistry between Juliette and Warner kept you flipping pages in Shatter Me, Cruel Beauty delivers that same knife’s-edge intimacy. Nyx is trained to kill the very man she’s forced to marry, just as Juliette is weaponized even as she yearns to choose her own heart. The barbed banter, secrets behind locked doors, and the dawning realization that desire can coexist with darkness will feel thrillingly familiar.