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Fearless (Waterstones Exclusive Edition) by Lauren Roberts

26 reviews

vaguelyredhead's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Child death, Incest, Sexual content

mrsipson's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

spatterson7's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Death of parent, Pregnancy

boba_nbooks's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Spice Rating: 🌶️ / 5

My Summary: Kai and Paedyn are finally back in Ilya, but the pair still have many obstacles to overcome. Paedyn has a huge decision to make--does she choose love for herself? Or does she sacrifice her happiness for the good of the entire kingdom? But first, Paedyn will have to face trials and challenges more difficult than she's ever gone through before. 

My Thoughts: Being the third book in this trilogy, Fearless does a decent job wrapping up Paedyn's, Kai's, and Kitt's stories. Book two, Reckless, left readers on a hell of a cliffhanger, and a majority of this book leaves you in suspense waiting to see what Paedyn will choose--her own happiness or the good of the kingdom.

My main disappointment is that we found out some interesting information towards the end of the book that we didn't really get to see the ramifications from.

I wanted to know more about how Kitt recreated the Plague and how the foreign queen was able to stop its spread after Paedyn had unknowingly delivered it to their doorstep through the roses.

It just felt like we skipped over that part and were just supposed to believe it was solved through ✨magic.✨

Overall, Fearless was a lot of fun. You get plenty of banter and tension between Kai and Paedyn along with exciting action sequences. The stakes are higher than ever, and though the payoff is bittersweet, I am happy with the way it ended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Child death, Incest, Sexual content

squidney36's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Twist at every chapter
Everything you know is wrong
Licking and giggling the whole way
Forbidden love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

allyrosereadsbooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Sexual content

emilywemily6's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous hopeful slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This series just went downhill from the first book. Kai and Pae's banter/prose was enjoyable but also got repetitive with similar phrasing and not a lot of true tension or conflict (lots of avoidance). While there was a plot happening, it felt much lower stakes than it should have and like the solutions were not as difficult as was alluded to. The trials themselves made no sense in their purpose. It really felt like nothing happened with these characters for 80% of the book. The one big tragedy that happened before the 80% mark ended up being a fake that was revealed in the very next chapter, so it wasn't satisfying. There were so many plot holes that just easily explained things away. The twists and turns at the end were so convoluted and unnecessary, and while I didn't guess the twists I saw the overall outcome from a mile away. Kitt's characterization from the second book didn't match this book for about 80% of it, so the sudden switch in his character back to crazy Kitt was incongruous with how his character was portrayed for most of this book. His epilogue was weird and unnecessary, like it was meant as a consolation for the people sad about how his story ended. Also, they mentioned Adena SO MANY TIMES!!! I don't remember that happening in the second book, but it got really old. Also... is Blair dead or no? Ugh this book was fast paced and mostly enjoyable as far as prose goes, but the actual storytelling and writing was not good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Incest, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief

Minor: Infidelity, Death of parent, Alcohol

cornyylynn's review against another edition

3.0

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment

beebowbabe's review against another edition

2.0

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This might've been the best book of it weren't for the

incest

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Terminal illness, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, War

Minor: Infidelity, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pandemic/Epidemic

bookrecsbyjess's review against another edition

5.0

emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

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Thank you Simon Teen for the gifted copy and to Simon Audio for the ALC. All opinions are my own.

What it's about:

This book picks up right where book two left off. It's full of secrets, betrayals, and heartbreaking moments. There's also a new POV added to this story. Backstories are explored as well.

What I thought:

Wow, this book had my emotions all over the place. I loved it, but I also had to stop reading sometimes because of how upset the story would make me. I loved that it wasn't predictable, and I enjoyed the romance.

🎧 Audiobook Thoughts: I loved these narrators and thought this format worked well for this book. 

⚠️ swearing, violence, blood, death, & grief

🌶️ fade to black

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Sexual content