If what hooked you was Ari buying a spell to erase her grief over Win—and then watching the fallout ripple through Kay and Markos—you’ll love how The Price Guide to the Occult puts Nor Blackburn on a storm-lashed island where her family’s craft offers tempting fixes with ugly prices. Like the hekamists who promise relief but hide the bill, Nor’s lineage lures her with power that could “solve” pain while endangering her friends and her community. The same hush of small-town secrecy and the dread of realizing a wish can hurt the people you love pervade every chapter.

If you were drawn to how Ari’s forgetting spell never plays by clear rules—and how each character’s desire twists reality in unexpected ways—The Accident Season will hit the same nerve. Cara’s family suffers an annual curse that may be superstition, fate, or something in between; like Ari and her friends trying to map the costs of their choices, Cara, Bea, and Sam chase clues through secrets, parties, and photographs as the uncanny slides into the ordinary. The story thrives on that slippery feeling you had when Kay and Markos realized nothing is quite what they remember.

If the part that gripped you was the sinister edge of Ari’s spell—the way a quick fix for grief carries a hidden, punishing price—then The Hazel Wood will scratch that itch. When Alice goes looking for her vanished mother, she’s pulled into stories that make deals as cruel as any spell Ari bought, and they collect what’s owed without mercy. The creeping realization you felt as Ari, Kay, and Markos uncovered the real costs of meddling with memory echoes here as every wish tangles Alice deeper in a dark fairy-tale logic that bites back.

If you liked how The Cost of All Things braids Ari, Kay, and Markos’s perspectives—each revealing a different shard of the truth behind the spells—The Raven Boys delivers that same mosaic. Blue, Gansey, Adam, Ronan, and Noah take turns telling a story where personal secrets and supernatural threads knot together, much like how Ari’s choice to forget Win reshapes her friends’ lives. The pleasure here is in watching the group dynamics shift as revelations land, just as the different viewpoints in Ari’s circle turn a simple spell into a labyrinth.

If Ari’s attempt to erase her grief—and the foggy, disorienting aftermath that ensnares Kay and Markos—was what stayed with you, Imaginary Girls dives into that same psychological undertow. Chloe returns to her charismatic sister Ruby and a drowned town where memory, guilt, and love warp reality. Like the creeping dread you felt as Ari questioned what she’d really lost with Win, Chloe’s fixation on Ruby turns the everyday uncanny, asking how far someone will go to keep pain at bay and what it costs to live inside a beautiful lie.