You loved how Carter and Sadie host Horus and Isis, race to stop Set’s red pyramid in Phoenix, and keep bumping into gods in museums and city streets. Aru Shah and the End of Time hits that same sweet spot—Aru accidentally awakens an ancient threat at a museum and, with new allies and divine powers, dives into Hindu mythology made immediate, funny, and high-stakes. If unraveling the House of Life’s rules and sparring with Bast felt thrilling, you’ll enjoy Aru navigating celestial beings, clever trials, and mythic showdowns with a modern twist.

If Sadie’s razor-edged asides cutting into Carter’s earnest narration kept you turning pages—like when their "recording" format lets them bicker mid-crisis after the Rosetta Stone explodes—The Raven Boys offers a similarly addictive chorus of voices. Blue, Gansey, Ronan, Adam, and Noah trade perspectives as they hunt a sleeping Welsh king, with POV shifts that deepen the mystery the way Carter and Sadie’s dueling narratives deepen the battle with Desjardins and the House of Life.

If Sadie’s quips, Khufu the baboon’s bizarre "foods ending in -o" diet, and Bast’s catty one-liners made even the Set showdown fun, you’ll vibe with the relentless wit of Skulduggery Pleasant. A wisecracking skeleton detective and a sharp teen partner toss barbs while battling sorcerers across modern streets—think the same irreverent humor that lightened Carter and Sadie’s run-ins with shabti mishaps and Brooklyn-mansion mayhem, now dialed into a snappy, mystery-driven romp.

You enjoyed discovering a secret magical order behind everyday places—the First Nome beneath Cairo, portals in airports, and Amos’s enchanted Brooklyn mansion. City of Bones opens similar doors: Clary stumbles into the Shadowhunters’ hidden New York, where runes, demons, and cloaked politics hum just out of sight. If uncovering the House of Life’s rules and meeting Zia Rashid scratched that urban-magic itch, this will, too—complete with backroom conspiracies and nighttime hunts through familiar streets.

In The Red Pyramid, magic has structure—hieroglyphs, divine hosting, shabti, and the cost of invoking godly power, like Carter learning Horus’s combat magic and Sadie mastering Isis’s words of power. Sabriel offers that satisfying rigor: necromancy defined by seven bells, charter marks, and precise limits. If decoding the Hall of Ages’ lore and using the right spell at the right moment thrilled you, Sabriel’s methodical magic and perilous crossings into Death will hit the same nerve.