If what grabbed you in Updraft was the bone-tower society, glider culture, and the way the Singers’ songs mesh with the ecology of skymouths, you’ll love how The Cloud Roads builds an entire airborne world around the Raksura. Moon’s people shift into winged forms, roost in elaborate aeries, and navigate clan customs as intricate as Kirit’s tower-laws and bone debts. The sensory detail—night flights, cliffside courts, predatory sky-creatures—delivers that same textured, vertical world you explored when Kirit leapt between towers and uncovered the city’s biological secrets.

Kirit’s arc—from a rule-tested novice to someone who challenges the Singers’ order—echoes beautifully in Sabriel. Like Kirit breaking past the tower’s strictures and the Singers’ lies, Sabriel leaves safety, inherits dangerous responsibilities, and confronts a hidden truth shaping her world. If you loved watching Kirit push back against bone-debt laws and risk the skies to protect her people, Sabriel’s determined journey into the Old Kingdom to face down necromantic threats will scratch the same coming-of-age itch with equal courage and heart.

If the Singer training—rituals, rules, and the mounting realization that the institution is not what it claims—hooked you in Updraft, A Deadly Education offers that same teeth-bared school experience. Where Kirit’s lessons and trials skim the edge of real peril (especially once she learns what the Singers are keeping from the towers), El’s coursework in the Scholomance is literal life-or-death. The grind of surviving classes, the political pecking order, and the dawning awareness of the school’s terrible bargains mirror the tension you felt during Kirit’s tightly controlled instruction and forbidden discoveries.

When Kirit uncovers the Singers’ manipulation—bone debts, silenced truths, and the cost of stability—you get that hit of behind-the-curtain scheming. Court of Fives channels a similar pulse of political tension. Jessamy navigates a stratified city where public spectacle masks ruthless power plays, much like the towers’ rituals distract from the Singers’ secrets. If the conspiracies around skymouths and the city’s songs kept you turning pages, the alliances, betrayals, and public trials in Jessamy’s world will deliver that same breath-held intrigue.

If what you loved most was leaping between towers with Kirit, feeling the wind in your feathers and spotting skymouths circling the updrafts, Airborn gives you that same heady rush. Matt Cruse crewes a luxury airship, stumbles onto sky-creatures thought to be myths, and battles pirates in the clouds. The joy of flight, the danger hovering just beyond the rigging, and the discovery of strange aerial life echo the awe and peril of Updraft’s skyscapes—minus the bone towers, but with every bit of that sky-drunk wonder.