If you loved how Sideways, Jing, Daisy, and Yates turn a thrown-together coven into real ride-or-die family, you’ll click with the chaotic crew in The Raven Boys. Blue, Gansey, Adam, and Ronan bond over ley lines and deathly omens the way Sideways’s coven bonds over midnight rituals and hexes—equal parts tenderness and danger. The same intoxicating feeling of a found crew pulling each other deeper into weird magic and risky choices is all over this book.

Like Sideways sneaking real spells into party tricks and parking-lot rituals, Hannah juggles breakups, school, and coven politics while someone dangerous stalks her Salem community. The small-scale, modern setting mirrors the Scapegracers vibe: messy teen life, snarky banter, and witchcraft that erupts in very public, very risky moments.

If Sideways’s arc—owning her power while carving out who she is within her coven—hit home, Cemetery Boys delivers that same rush of self-affirmation. Yadriel insists on his identity and proves it through spellwork, summoning a ghost who becomes way more than a complication. That blend of intimate rituals, sharp humor, and staking your place in a magical community echoes Sideways claiming the circle with Jing, Daisy, and Yates.

If you dug the way Sideways’s spells feel like mood, intention, and friendship braided together—more vibe than textbook—The Lost Coast is a perfect fit. Danny falls in with the Grays, a coven whose magic is all intuition and connection, not neat diagrams. The push-pull of desire, danger, and devotion within the circle recalls those incandescent Scapegracers nights when the girls’ feelings power the spell.

The intensity you felt in Sideways’s close-knit rituals—kitchen tables, whispered plans, a hex for a friend—shows up here when Mila raises her dead best friend and two classmates to solve their murders. It’s intimate, funny, and sharp, with necromancy-fueled hijinks and heartfelt loyalty that mirror the Scapegracers coven’s ride-or-die energy.