If the breathless sprints in The Angel Experiment—Max racing to save Angel while dodging Erasers and hopping city to city—kept you turning pages, you’ll love Legend. June and Day tear across a near-future Los Angeles in pursuit and escape sequences that mirror Max’s cross‑country dashes, with tight chapters and constant reversals that feel like those School ambushes and rooftop getaways.

If you connected with the flock’s makeshift family—Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel—sticking together after the School tears them apart, The Darkest Minds delivers that same heartbeat. Ruby falls in with Liam, Chubs, and Zu on a road trip in a battered van (think the flock’s on‑the‑run vibe) while evading government camps that feel chillingly like the School’s labs and handlers.

If Max’s snark, grit, and command decisions—calling the shots during the Angel rescue, challenging Jeb’s manipulations, trusting that unnerving Voice—won you over, Divergent offers another fierce lead. Tris faces brutal tests, calls risky plays under pressure, and pushes back against a controlling system with the same stubborn courage that Max shows when she leads the flock.

If the genetic engineering behind wings, Erasers, and the School’s experiments intrigued you—without pages of hard tech—Uglies hits that sweet spot. Like Max uncovering what the School did to Angel and the flock, Tally uncovers the sinister science behind the pretty surgeries and the institutions enforcing them, with stakes that turn personal as secrets come to light.

If you loved the singular focus of getting Angel back and staying ahead of the School—every chapter pushing toward that goal—The Maze Runner funnels that urgency into an all‑consuming objective: get out of the Maze. Thomas and the Gladers face trap‑laden runs and deadly pursuers that echo the flock’s breakouts and Eraser fights, with the same do‑or‑die momentum.