If you loved how Tara and Elayne resurrect Kos Everburning by parsing contracts and exploiting the fine print of the Craft in Three Parts Dead, you'll click with the scriving in Foundryside. Bennet’s magic works like enforceable legal code—written commands that reprogram objects—fueling heists, courtroom‑clever gambits, and big ethical questions about who gets to write the rules of reality.

Tara and Abelard’s hunt for who killed Kos—chasing leads through Alt Coulomb’s alleys, boardrooms, and courts while Cat’s entanglement with Justice muddies the waters—mirrors the layered inquiry in The City & the City. Miéville delivers a mesmerizing case where political borders and perception itself complicate every clue, scratching the same itch as unraveling Denovo’s plot behind the god’s death.

If the corporate‑legal chess in Alt Coulomb—Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao squaring off against rival interests while a dead god’s balance sheet decides a city’s fate—had you riveted, The Traitor Baru Cormorant doubles down on that flavor. Baru weaponizes finance, treaties, and policy the way Elayne wields the Craft, turning ledgers and laws into knives in a brutal, brilliant game of empire.

In Three Parts Dead, gods are infrastructure and necromancy is utility management; Tara weighs the moral price of bringing Kos back to keep a city alive. The Fifth Season hits that same nerve: orogenes are exploited as living systems to stabilize a hostile world, and every choice about using power—like binding Justice to Cat—carries intimate, civilization‑scale consequences.

If Tara’s uneasy apprenticeship under Elayne Kevarian—late nights mastering the Craft’s fine print before facing down Denovo in court—was your jam, Uprooted delivers that charged dynamic in spades. Agnieszka’s rough‑edged talent and her contentious training under the Dragon sharpen into real power, with the same mix of friction, growth, and awe you felt watching Tara come into her own.