If the scheming at Sky—Dekarta’s succession trials, Scimina’s traps, and the way the Arameri leverage captive godlings—hooked you, you’ll love how diplomat-spy Shara Komayd navigates Bulikov’s brittle peace and forbidden divinities in City of Stairs. Like Yeine unpicking the Arameri’s power games, Shara peels back layers of conspiracy tied to dead gods and imperial rule, where every conversation can topple a city.

You were fascinated by Nahadoth, Itempas, and the godlings—ancient beings bound by oaths and loopholes, their power fueling Arameri rule. The Raven Tower offers that same electric tension: gods who can act only within their words, priests and rulers who twist those limits, and a human caught in the crossfire. If Yeine’s entanglement with divine law and sacrifice gripped you, this tale of worship, promises, and political theology will hit the same nerve.

Yeine arrives at Sky as a Darr woman in an Arameri world, using the system’s own rules to survive the succession game. Baru does the same with the Masquerade: she plays accountant, courtier, and conspirator to seize leverage from within. If you admired how Yeine navigates humiliation, coded threats, and impossible choices to protect her people, The Traitor Baru Cormorant delivers that same ruthless, cerebral struggle against colonial power.

If Yeine’s bond with Nahadoth—equal parts peril, intimacy, and self-revelation—pulled you in, Uprooted echoes that arc. Agnieszka’s magic is wild and unsettling; her uneasy partnership with the Dragon forces her to confront what power demands and who she becomes when she wields it. As with Yeine’s choices about Enefa’s legacy, every spell here has moral weight and consequences that ripple beyond the tower.

Yeine thrives in gray zones—sparring with Scimina, bargaining with godlings, loving what she should fear. Phèdre nó Delaunay lives in similarly perilous nuance, where desire, duty, and betrayal entwine across embassies and thrones. If the morally tangled choices at Sky and Yeine’s alliances with dangerous beings captivated you, Kushiel’s Dart offers a lush, intricate court where pleasure and politics are weapons.