If you loved how Ceony bonds to paper and uses precise Folding to animate creations like Fennel—and how every flourish has a rule—then you’ll click with the chalkline duels and geometric defenses in The Rithmatist. Like Ceony navigating the chambers of Emery Thane’s heart to outwit Lira, students here must master strict diagrams to survive deadly showdowns against rogue chalklings.

You enjoyed how Ceony’s feelings for Emery Thane deepen even as she battles the Excisioner Lira inside his heart. In Sorcery of Thorns, Elisabeth teams up with the enigmatic sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn (and his unsettlingly charming familiar, Silas) as living grimoires break loose. The danger intensifies the relationship—much like Ceony and Emery’s bond forged through paper, blood, and bravery.

If the close focus on Ceony, Emery, and the threat of Lira—often confined to rooms, workshops, and the literal chambers of a heart—hooked you, Uprooted offers a similarly tight lens. Agnieszka’s uneasy apprenticeship to the Dragon keeps the cast small and the emotions immediate, even as the creeping Wood raises the stakes, echoing the focused intensity of Ceony’s rescue.

Ceony’s story races on a singular objective: dive into Emery’s heart and reclaim it from Lira. In The Invisible Library, Irene’s assignment is just as crisp—steal a specific Grimm manuscript from an alternate London filled with Fae and dragons. That sharp, goal-first momentum mirrors Ceony’s heart-chamber gauntlet, with clever magical problem-solving at every turn.

If the whimsical touches—animated paper birds, a loyal paper dog, and wry magical flourishes amid danger—delighted you in The Paper Magician, you’ll adore Howl’s Moving Castle. Sophie’s curse, Calcifer’s firebound bargains, and Howl’s eccentricities bring the same buoyant charm, even as real peril simmers beneath the banter—much like Ceony’s daring journey through Emery’s heart.