If the layered worldbuilding of Armada’s districts, the Remade like Tanner Sack’s sea-adaptations, and the esoterica around the avanc and grindylow pulled you under in The Scar, you’ll love the living sprawl of the great ship Chathrand in The Red Wolf Conspiracy. Redick packs its decks with secret societies, ancient magics, and strange species, delivering that same dense sense of place you felt when Bellis threaded through Armada’s alleys and archives.

If you were fascinated by the Lovers’ quiet coups, Armada’s factional knife-fights, and Bellis Coldwine’s wary diplomacy with New Crobuzon in The Scar, The Traitor Baru Cormorant delivers a razor-edged feast of intrigue. Watching Baru infiltrate an empire—trading compromise after compromise the way Uther Doul trades loyalties—scratches that same itch for ruthless stratagems and political gambits that steer nations as surely as the avanc hauled Armada.

If the weird surge of The Scar—the grindylow’s alien logic, the impossibility of the avanc, Uther Doul’s eerie Possible Sword, and the grotesque beauty of the Remade—left you awestruck, City of Saints and Madmen sinks you into Ambergris, a city as unsettling and fecund as New Crobuzon. Mushrooms colonize streets, histories contradict themselves, and the book itself mutates, echoing that unsettling, reality-fraying vibe Armada exudes.

If you were drawn to the moral gray of Bellis’s pragmatism, the pirates’ self-serving loyalties in Armada, and Uther Doul’s brutal calculus in The Scar, you’ll click with Locke and Jean’s cons in The Lies of Locke Lamora. Their maneuvers against Capa Barsavi and the Gray King channel the same thrill of cunning gambits and dubious ethics that kept you riveted through the Lovers’ grand designs.

If the sweeping voyage of The Scar—Armada lashed together and dragged across the world by the avanc, its tattooed crews and sea battles—captivated you, The Bone Ships hits the same epic maritime vein. Joron Twiner’s Tide Child hunts an ancient sea-dragon while navigating hard-bitten ranks and salt-bitten rivalries, echoing the scale, danger, and maritime culture that made Bellis’s passage so unforgettable.