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Fearless

Lauren Roberts

3.95 AVERAGE

folklore_spirit's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

carol_mc_24's review against another edition

4.25

emotional medium-paced

kira69's review against another edition

0.5

This book is a perfect example of how the publishing industry is becoming saturated with unoriginal and rushed novels that do a whole lot of telling and no showing.

I did not feel immersed in the story because simple things as describing the setting was half arsed or emitted almost entirely. Not to mention that some descriptions don’t even make any sense

“Everything about this castle felt light and airy, as if the sky hanging low above the water was personified”

I had to reread this line a couple of times because what editor approved this?? I know this might seem knit picky but here is a perfect example of when a device such as personification could have been used but it was not. How does something being light and airy even relate to something human?

This questionable writing continues throughout the novel and adds to the feeling of reading words on a page rather than escaping into a different world which most readers crave in a romantasy like this.

Furthermore, Paedyn is written in a way which forces the idea of a strong female protagonist so hard onto us as the reader that ultimately her actions either don’t align with her character or feel cringey and out of place.
For instance when she

kills Blair in an extremely morbid fashion after her repeated hatred for killing and blood. Robert’s tries to build an empathetic character but destroys that image in this scene. Yes Blair killed her best friend but surely an already clearly traumatised person wouldn’t go to such an extreme. And don’t even get me started on the spontaneous eruption of the fire which seemingly came out of no where or the fact that Blair didn’t even fight back when she so clearly very powerful

Kai. If I had to read the same “I wanna be with her, but I can’t , she’ll never be mine” (or something along those lines) one more time I would have had to bash my head against a wall. Please describe characters emotions in a different way that isn’t a repetitive and meaningless catch phrase.

Also him punching a wall towards the end is a super duper attractive trait…..

Kitt.

Honestly he had so much potential as a character. I thought killing him at the end was a really cheap way to fix the love triangle so that Kai and Paedyn could be together. Sadly I didn’t feel enough of a connection with any of the characters to even be upset about this death and it just made me question the point of this plot twist. Also naming their child “Kit”?? Real creative

Again the incest trope just felt really strange, especially when they agreed to marry each other AGAIN in Loot after finding out about their relation. Surely we should be more upset about this??
Side note: Kai and Paedyn being intimate on Kai’s sisters grave. Not cool, again, thoroughly disturbed

Please invest in an editor and maybe more time in writing your plot

itzaa's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional sad

lauraafalkner's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mreena's review against another edition

2.0

it was…..okay i guess. the vision was there but the execution was lacking, to say.

thebirdchild's review against another edition

1.0

I feel like the character grew and didn’t grow at the same time. The choices all the characters made went against things that they learned and they were also the same as when the book started. I really liked the first two books but this one was disappointing. Too many plot twists to the point where it didn’t make sense.

Very disappointing