If what gripped you in The Broken Crown was watching Diora di'Marano survive the destruction of her house by turning ceremony, alliance, and etiquette into blades, you’ll love how Baru infiltrates and outplays an imperial bureaucracy—using finance, arranged marriages, and cold strategy to unmake her enemies from within. The same chill of carefully plotted betrayals and banquet-table warfare runs through every chapter.

If you were pulled in by the way The Broken Crown hops between Diora’s struggle in the Dominion and Valedan di’Serio’s contested claim—each thread refracting the others—you’ll appreciate how A Game of Thrones weaves Ned, Daenerys, Tyrion, and more into a relentless mosaic of clashing loyalties. The shifting viewpoints deliver that same thrill of seeing every move in the great game from multiple, conflicting angles.

If you loved how The Broken Crown drenches you in the Dominion’s hereditary codes, house sigils, and ceremonial power—down to the weight of oaths and the cost of a misstep—you’ll revel in Wurts’s meticulous world. The fealties, treaties, and ancient geographies around Arithon and Lysaer echo the layered customs that shape Diora’s every choice.

If the slow ignition of The Broken Crown—from the simmering tensions that topple House di’Marano to Valedan’s painstaking road toward a claim—was your favorite flavor, Ship of Magic offers that same patient burn. Althea Vestrit’s struggle over a family liveship and the creeping rise of pirate power build chapter by chapter until the emotional and political tinderbox explodes.

If Diora’s steel—quietly bending ritual and expectation to survive the slaughter of her house—stayed with you, Phedre’s blend of wit, faith, and audacity will too. She maneuvers through courts, bedchambers, and battlefields to unmask conspiracies that could unmake her homeland, echoing Diora’s grace-under-knife in the Dominion.