If the fog-drenched mood of Sparrow, the lighthouse on Lumiere Island, and the dreamy way the Swan sisters’ legend seeps through every sentence kept you rapt, you’ll fall for the lush, magical prose of Ava Lavender. Like Penny watching Swan Season creep in, Ava’s tale unfolds with a haunted, fairy-tale hush—family curses, impossible love, and a girl literally born with wings—told with the same melancholic beauty that made the Swan sisters’ song feel like a tide you couldn’t resist.

You liked how Sparrow’s curse lives right under everyday life—girls possessed by the Swan sisters, boys lost to the water, and Penny reading fate from the lighthouse—so you’ll love the quiet thrum of enchantment in The Raven Boys. Blue Sargent falls in with Gansey and his friends as they hunt a sleeping Welsh king buried under their Virginia town, where ley lines echo the same eerie, just-out-of-sight power that draws Bo to Sparrow and turns a summer into a reckoning.

If the Swan sisters’ yearly possession and drownings—those whispered warnings during Swan Season—hooked you, The Near Witch channels that same folkloric dread. In a wind-lashed village, children vanish after a stranger arrives, and Lexi digs into witch-lore that locals refuse to face, much like Sparrow’s denial as bodies surface. The creeping, candlelit hunt for the truth mirrors Penny’s own search while a long-buried legend turns predatory.

If Penny and Bo’s tender, wary connection—born under the shadow of Sparrow’s waters and deadly summer—was your sweet spot, House of Salt and Sorrows offers that same blend of ache and dread. Annaleigh Thaumas navigates a seaside manor where sisters keep dying and masked midnight revels turn uncanny. The romance blooms amid salt-stung cliffs and superstition, echoing the way love in The Wicked Deep has to survive the pull of a merciless legend.

If the late-breaking secrets in Sparrow—who’s possessed, who’s culpable, and what Penny and Bo are really hiding—made you gasp, The Dead and the Dark delivers those gut-punch turns. Logan Ortiz-Woodley arrives in an isolated town plagued by disappearances and a malevolent presence, and each clue snaps the story into a new shape, much like the revelations that shift everything you thought you knew about the Swan sisters’ vengeance.