If you fell for the lyrical, sensuous language that made Lace and Cluck’s world feel spellbound—the mermaid shows in the toxined river, the tree-dancers with stitched wings, the superstition-laced feud—you’ll love the way The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender sings. Walton’s sentences glow with the same dreamlike beauty, and the story of Ava, a girl literally born with wings, echoes the feathered fate and generational myths that shadowed the Palomas and Corbeaus.

The way Lace’s skin blooms with scales after the chemical spill and the families’ curses feel inexplicable yet true gives The Weight of Feathers its hushed, uncanny charge. Bone Gap moves with that same quiet magic: Finn sees the world differently, a beautiful woman vanishes into the corn, and a doorway seems to open where it shouldn’t. If the Paloma/Corbeau superstitions and Cluck’s enchanted-feeling feathers drew you in, Ruby’s folkloric weirdness will feel like coming home.

If what gripped you was how Lace and Cluck’s love threads through tight-knit families, old wounds, and inherited beliefs—abuela’s rules, Dax’s shadow, the feud’s toll—then The Astonishing Color of After will resonate. Leigh believes her mother has become a bird and follows that vision into family secrets and healing. The magic here, as with the Palomas’ mermaid rites and the Corbeaus’ wings, is intimate and tied to grief, identity, and the courage to face the past.

If you loved slipping between Lace’s and Cluck’s chapters—watching how her stubborn loyalty and his gentleness collide against a family feud—Yoon’s alternating voices will hit the same sweet spot. Natasha and Daniel’s day together is electric with fate-versus-choice tension, family pressures, and big, aching questions about belonging—echoing the push-pull you felt as Lace and Cluck tried to bridge Paloma and Corbeau divides.

If the secret meetings beneath the trees, the stitched wings Cluck makes, and Lace’s underwater performances swept you away, The Night Circus spins that glamour into an irresistible duel. Celia and Marco are trained by warring mentors to outdo one another under a black-and-white big top, but their rivalry becomes a tender, impossible love—much like Lace and Cluck trying to love across Paloma and Corbeau lines, with every performance shimmering with risk.