If you loved how Three Dark Crowns shifts between Mirabella’s tempests, Arsinoe’s scrappy survival with Jules and Camden, and Katharine’s poisoner court, you’ll sink into the rich, multi-POV tapestry of The Priory of the Orange Tree. It balances sweeping politics and intimate stakes the way Queenstrial does, letting you live inside competing loyalties and agendas while a kingdom’s fate hangs in the balance.

Drawn to the scheming on Fennbirn—Natalia Arron’s poisoner plotting, priestesses steering Mirabella, and those backroom deals before Queenstrial? Grave Mercy feeds that appetite with an assassin navigating duchess courts, secret alliances, and deadly negotiations. Like Pietyr and the Arrons, every smile hides a blade, and each choice twists the balance of power.

If the brutal expectation that the three queens must murder their sisters hooked you—especially the way Queenstrial turns pageantry into peril—The Young Elites matches that darkness. Adelina’s rise is as sharp and unforgiving as Katharine’s transformation after the Breccia Domain, and the tone stays chillingly intense from first betrayal to last reckoning.

If you were compelled by Katharine’s quiet ruthlessness, Pietyr’s betrayals, and the way even Mirabella and Arsinoe cross lines when cornered, The Cruel Prince delivers that same delicious moral gray. Jude claws for power in a treacherous faerie court with the kind of cutthroat calculus you saw across Fennbirn’s factions.

If Arsinoe turning to low magic with Madrigal and the poisoners’ deadly arts fascinated you, The Bone Witch dives deep into taboo power and its costs. Tea’s necromancy, like the secrets under Fennbirn’s ‘proper’ gifts, is dangerous, political, and transformative—and the training and courtly performances echo Queenstrial’s dazzling, lethal rites.