If you loved how a construction kid secretly unearths Pelly’s diary and you slowly discover the colony’s slide into gene-based persecution and water riots, you’ll click with the way Illuminae unfolds through hacked files, message logs, and personal transcripts. Like watching Pelly’s entries shift from shallow parties to terror and conscience, Kady’s texts and reports reveal a catastrophe bit by bit—putting you in the seat of a reader-detective as the truth grows darker and more urgent.

You watched a comfortable world curdle in The Diary of Pelly D—from fashion and flirting to curfews, roundups, and gene-tag terror—and felt that churn in your gut. In The Knife of Never Letting Go, Todd discovers that the story his town tells is a lie, and the pressure cooker of an authoritarian community explodes into a desperate flight. That same rising dread—when Pelly’s entries go from gossip to survival—propels Todd and Viola as they run, question everything, and face the cost of resisting control.

If the way Pelly’s world weaponizes labels and ID markers—and turns neighbors into targets—stuck with you, The Handmaid’s Tale will hit the same nerve. Like the colony’s polite veneer cracking into checkpoints and disappearances, Offred’s calm, precise narration reveals how ordinary rituals mask a system built on sanctioned oppression. It’s the same slow, chilling realization you felt as Pelly’s diary shifted from parties to punishments.

Pelly’s entries start breezy and turn harrowing as she realizes what her genes mean in a system that sorts and discards people. Never Let Me Go offers that same soft-spoken horror: Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow up believing they’re special—until the truth of their purpose surfaces in whispers, rules, and “donations.” The gentle tone only makes the moral chill deeper, much like Pelly’s voice growing more serious as her world closes in.

If Pelly’s dawning outrage at a society that sorts lives by genetic tags grabbed you—and the worker who finds her diary risks everything just to keep reading—Unwind channels that same moral urgency. Connor, Risa, and Lev run from a law that lets adults “unwind” teens for parts. Like the colony’s escalations from rationing to removals, every choice here tests what a life is worth and how far you’ll go to protect it.