If the winter-struck forests, goblin lore, and old-world superstition that ensnare Liesl after her bargain with the Goblin King spoke to you, you’ll love the way The Bear and the Nightingale summons chyerti and the frost-demon Morozko from the snows of medieval Rus’. Like Liesl guarding her family while the Underground presses in, Vasya defies a village priest and a creeping winter horror to protect her home, walking the knife’s edge between mortal life and the cold, perilous magic of folklore.

You were captivated when Liesl’s music binds her to the Goblin King and draws her into the Underground; in An Enchantment of Ravens, portrait artist Isobel paints human sorrow into the face of the autumn prince Rook—an unforgivable truth that forces him to drag her into Faerie. As with Liesl’s treacherous journey below, the road through the courts brims with deadly etiquette, riddles, and a fraught attraction between mortal and inhuman that could undo them both.

If the musical, velvet-rich voice of Wintersong—from Liesl’s compositions to the decadent, perilous waltz with the Goblin King—swept you away, The Night Circus offers the same opulent spell. Celia and Marco’s clandestine duel builds a love story in silks and starlight, every tent a movement in a symphony. It’s the kind of prose that feels like a score you can hear, slow and immersive, with longing stitched into every scene.

If you were drawn to Liesl’s reluctant devotion to the Goblin King and the way intimacy kindles in the shadow of obligation, Uprooted hits the same chord. Agnieszka is taken by the Dragon, a reclusive wizard, and their uneasy tutelage ignites into a prickly, heartfelt bond as they confront the corrupt Wood. Like Liesl growing into her power and desire, Agnieszka discovers fierce magic—and love—on her own terms.

Liesl’s tug-of-war between her composing talent, devotion to her brother Josef, and the Goblin King’s intoxicating realm finds a poignant mirror in The Kingdom of Back. Nannerl Mozart, overshadowed by Wolfgang, is tempted by a faerie prince who offers her the recognition she craves. As with Liesl’s sacrifices beneath the earth, Nannerl must decide what part of herself—and whom—she’s willing to give up for the music that defines her.