If you loved Verity’s knife‑edge balance between Harker and Flynn territory, the Corsai/Malchai lurking after curfew, and Kate and August sprinting across rooftops and subways to survive, you’ll click with 1920s Shanghai in These Violent Delights. Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov navigate rival gangs, back‑alley politics, and a city unraveling under a mysterious monster‑borne madness—much like the way Verity’s uneasy truce shatters. The same blend of urban tension, turf lines you don’t cross, and a partnership forced by crisis powers this story from its smoky speakeasies to its creature‑haunted riverbanks.

Remember how This Savage Song never flinches—August’s violin turning sinners to ash, Sloan’s ruthless hunts, Kate proving herself by embracing fear? The Young Elites carries that same unblinking darkness. Adelina Amouteru survives persecution only to discover powers that thrive on pain and anger, pushing her down a path as harrowing as Kate’s worst choices. Like Verity at its grimmest, this tale asks what you’ll sacrifice to claim power in a world that would devour you first.

If you were drawn to August’s feeding because he must, not because he wants to, and to Kate’s calculated cruelties to win her father’s approval, you’ll love the morally tangled crew in Six of Crows. Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, and company pull a high‑risk heist in Ketterdam, making choices as thorny as any in Verity—survival over innocence, loyalty over law. Like August and Kate’s alliance against Sloan, this team’s fragile trust turns desperate, brilliant, and thrilling under pressure.

If the back‑and‑forth between Kate Harker and August Flynn hooked you—each chapter tightening the net as the Malchai closed in—you’ll appreciate the shifting viewpoints in The Devouring Gray. Violet Saunders, Harper Carlisle, and others face an ancient Beast trapped just beyond their town’s borders, and as their secrets tangle, the danger mounts the way it did when the recording of August’s song upended Verity’s fragile order. Multiple voices, one mounting threat, and a sprint to survive.

August struggling with what it means to be a Sunai—feeding with his violin yet yearning to be more—and Kate trying to become the monster her father respects are the heartbeat of This Savage Song. In The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Tana wakes up after a massacre and heads into a quarantined vampire city with the dangerously charming Gavriel, forced to decide what kind of person she’ll be in a world that rewards cruelty. It’s the same raw, coming‑of‑age crucible—deadly cities, hard choices, and the fear that the monster might be you.