If you loved how Violet, Justin, Harper, and Isaac collide—each carrying family baggage and dangerous gifts—then the way Gansey, Blue, Ronan, and Adam form a prickly, loyal crew in The Raven Boys will hit the same nerve. As Gansey hunts a sleeping king along Henrietta’s ley lines, secrets and loyalties tangle much like the founding families’ power plays and the Gray’s hungry pull. The chemistry, friction, and ride-or-die moments feel just like those late-night ventures into Four Paths’ woods—only with different monsters waiting under the trees.

You got to watch Four Paths—and the Beast in the Gray—through Violet, Justin, Harper, and Isaac’s eyes. Sawkill Girls gives you that same mosaic: Marion, Zoey, and Val trade the narrative as their island’s legend—the Collector—stalks the shadows. Each viewpoint adds a new layer of dread and power, the way Harper’s scars, Isaac’s grief, and Justin’s burden reframed Four Paths’ curse. As alliances shift and truths surface, the monster becomes terrifying not just for what it does, but for what the girls discover about themselves.

If Four Paths’ tight streets, watchful neighbors, and hungry treeline kept you hooked, The Dead and the Dark traps you in Snakebite, Oregon, where teens vanish and a creeping presence coils through the pines. As Logan and Ashley dig into the town’s secrets—much like Violet following her mother’s trail and the founding families’ lies—the sense of being hemmed in by history and rumor ratchets up. Every alley and clearing feels like the Gray’s edge: step wrong, and something old and angry notices.

The creeping dread you felt whenever the Gray thinned—those bone altars, that almost-feral chill—finds a new form in House of Hollow. Iris and her sisters trail a breadcrumb path of antlers, petals, and decay as reality warps around them, echoing the ominous, half-seen rules that snared Violet and the others. It’s lush and eerie in the same way Four Paths is: gorgeous on the surface, rotting underneath, and full of revelations sharp enough to cut.

If the founding families’ bargains and the Gray’s Beast felt like a curse that owns Four Paths, The Wicked Deep channels that same dark pull. Every summer, the Swan sisters return to Sparrow to possess local girls and drown boys—an inheritance of magic as unforgiving as Augusta Hawthorne’s schemes and the blood-soaked rites beneath the forest. As Penny navigates love and betrayal under a clockwork doom, you’ll recognize the peril of touching power that always demands a price.