If Renata’s slow-burn swindle of House Traementis, those razor-edged readings with the pattern cards, and her cat-and-mouse with the Rook hooked you, you’ll love the Gentleman Bastards’ elaborate schemes in Camorr. The Lies of Locke Lamora delivers the same intoxicating mix of masquerades, aristocratic targets, and criminal wit—complete with rival crime lords and impossible heists that keep tightening the noose the way Ren’s con does in Nadežra.

Drawn to the backroom maneuvering among Nadežran houses, Grey Serrado’s tightrope between duty and conscience, and Vargo’s elegant power plays? City of Stairs follows diplomat-spy Shara Komayd as she digs into a politically explosive murder while navigating colonizers and the colonized—echoing the tense alliances, secret agendas, and civic unrest that simmer beneath Nadežra’s canals.

If you were swept up by Nadežra’s Vraszenian–Liganti fault lines, numinatria sigils, and the lush neighborhoods Ren moves through in disguise, The City of Brass offers an equally immersive metropolis. Daevabad’s sects, courts, and ancient grudges shape every conversation and deal—much like how old wars and old magic shadow Ren’s every step.

If Ren’s double life, the Rook’s vigilante calculus, and Derossi Vargo’s velvet-gloved menace had you rooting for rogues with questionable methods, Six of Crows delivers a crew of antiheroes who scheme, betray, and protect their own. You’ll find the same delicious tension between ethics and survival that runs through Ren’s deceptions and Grey Serrado’s compromises.

If the Vraszenian–Liganti class divide, House Traementis’s precarious status, and the way Nadežra grinds down the poor resonated with you, Foundryside hits that same nerve. Sancia, a thief from the slums, clashes with oligarchic houses whose magical ‘scriving’ warps reality—mirroring how power and arcane systems in Nadežra keep people like Ren’s allies on a knife’s edge.