If Cara’s ferocity and hard-won compassion gripped you—her transformation to strike back at the Five Magicians, then her reckoning with the cost of that power—McKillip’s Sybel will feel like kin. In The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, a reclusive mage who commands legendary beasts must decide whether to unleash her might for revenge or protect the life she’s built. Like Cara, Sybel faces seduction by wrath, a child’s fate at the heart of the conflict, and the peril of letting power define who you are.

Did the witch-skin and shape-shifting rites in The Warrior Who Carried Life enthrall you—the way Cara bargains with uncanny forces and pays in blood and selfhood? Deathless reweaves the tale of Koschei the Deathless into a lush, brutal romance where vows bind tighter than flesh. Its mythic transformations, underworld thresholds, and exacting deals echo Cara’s journey from vengeance into something stranger and more costly.

If the Five Magicians’ mutilations and Cara’s stolen, inhuman power fascinated you—the sense that every spell cuts both ways—Hawkins’ dark marvel will hit the same nerve. In The Library at Mount Char, Carolyn and her "siblings" wield godlike, horrifying arts learned from their Father, and every victory exacts a ruinous price. Like Cara’s attempt to unmake what vengeance wrought, this is a tale of surviving monstrous tutelage and choosing what kind of power to become.

If you were moved by how Cara’s thirst for payback against the Five Magicians deepens into self-knowledge—and by her descent into peril to undo the harm—Onyesonwu’s path will resonate. Who Fears Death follows a sorceress who begins with vengeance in her heart and must confront the consequences of power, ancestry, and love as she reshapes a cursed world. It mirrors Cara’s arc from rage to responsibility, without flinching from the cost.

If the strange, visionary textures of Cara’s journey hooked you—the witch-skin, the eerily numinous figures she meets, and the underworld’s dream-logic—this will scratch that itch. The Etched City drifts through a desert into a decadent city where reality warps: saints and monsters blur, art bleeds into sorcery, and characters are remade by encounters that feel like waking myths. It shares the same weird, heady shimmer that made Cara’s world feel so uncanny.