If the Ice Court job, with Kaz’s clockwork contingencies and last-second reversals, had you grinning, you’ll devour The Lies of Locke Lamora. Locke and the Gentleman Bastards run multilayered cons across Camorr, only to collide with the ruthless Gray King—think Kaz’s schemes meeting Pekka Rollins-level menace. The same thrill of clever disguises, unexpected betrayals, and plans-within-plans that got you through jurda parem’s fallout and the prison-break chaos is here, dripping with swagger and razor-edged stakes.

Loved how Inej, Jesper, Nina, Wylan, Matthias, and Kaz each slotted into the Ice Court plan like precision gears? Mistborn: The Final Empire hits that same chord. Kelsier assembles a crew—Breeze the Soother, Ham the Thug, Clubs the Smoker, and Vin learning Allomancy—to pull off an impossible job against an untouchable tyrant. The team dynamics, banter, and specialty roles feel like watching Jesper cover a rooftop while Inej ghosts through shadows—every talent matters, and the plan hinges on all of them.

If hopping between Kaz’s, Inej’s, Nina’s, and Matthias’s viewpoints pulled you deeper—unveiling past wounds, shifting loyalties, and those gut-punch reveals—Jade City delivers that same multi-POV charge. You’ll follow Hilo, Shae, and Lan Kaul across clan warfare, street deals, and political gambits, with each perspective tightening the noose the way flashbacks to Kaz’s Crows past or Nina’s Grisha history reframe the mission. It’s the same pulse of layered stakes, only in a neon-tinged, jade-powered underworld.

If you were drawn to Kaz’s cane-and-gloves ruthlessness, Nina’s ends‑justify‑the‑means choices with jurda parem, or the crew’s willingness to cross lines for each other, The Blade Itself is your brand of sharp. Logen Ninefingers, Sand dan Glokta, and Ferro are as morally tangled as any Crow—pragmatic, brutal, and strangely compelling. Like watching Kaz negotiate Ketterdam’s filth with a broken moral compass that still points to his crew, these characters do bad things for reasons that make terrible sense.

If the way the Crows bind themselves—Kaz trusting Inej on the wire, Nina and Matthias’s fragile truce, Wylan finding a place at last—gave you that warm, aching hit, The Gilded Wolves will scratch it. Séverin’s crew (Laila, Zofia, Enrique, Hypnos) tackle perilous artifact heists in Belle Époque Paris, teasing and protecting one another through riddles and traps that echo the Ice Court’s deadly puzzles. It’s the same heart: loyalty forged in danger, jokes in the dark, and a home built from people, not walls.