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Powerless by Lauren Roberts

307 reviews

maddie_lewis28's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Omg okay so I actually love this book. There were a few plot holes/easy way outs and it is definitely very similar to other fantasy books (mainly red queen and the hunger games), like sometimes a little too similar, but nonetheless I love. I was kind of speed running this at some points because a) I thought I couldn’t renew it and only had like 5 days to read over half the book and b) I was in the Swiss alps and read this on the bus and other times when I had a few minutes to spare, so these maybe slightly effected my reading and made me not feel things as deeply.

But god KAI AZER!! OBSESSED!!!! I did accidentally get it spoiled that he killed her dad which was a crazy spoiler to get. And I kind of had a feeling that Adena would be the “criminal” at the end of the third trial but I did not foresee Paedyn killing the king (a little too easy). BUT NOW KITT WILL HAVE HIS VILLAIN ORGIN STORY AND I HATE IT! Like Kitt was so sweet why😭 And I just want Kai and Paedyn to be together😭

I can’t wait for the next book though to see Kai and Paedyn encounter eachother and see Kai continue to struggle with duty and emotions. And her struggle with hatred but also emotions.

Oh and I called it that the resistance was going to pull some crazy shit for their “reveal”. Like that’s so dumb that Paedyn didn’t ask for ANY of their plans. So it’ll be interesting to see her work with them and if the resistance is actually good or if it’s like a Coin from the Hunger Games type thing. I’m sooooooooo curious.

Also I did read somewhere (maybe another spoiler or maybe just in the second book description, idk) that Kai will “go across enemy lines for Paedyn” so I’m so curious. Because we could see the spark of questioning from Kai about ordinaries, whereas Kitt was more of a firm believer in what his father said.

Basically I’m just obsessed with Kai and this book.

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emmaeger's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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aislin_c's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging medium-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

Why’s they have to do my prince kit like that

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pinheiro_94's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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jwrites1991's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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shelbieb's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It’s a hunger games meets red queen rip of.

I did like they didn’t make her magical

I did think the enemies to lovers to enemies was kind of fun.

. But I had a hard time caring about the plot, felt really dragged out. I can’t remember the names of any of the contestants except the main characters and the

brother

. Just felt… eh…

also if there are so many homeless people I feel like her house would for sure be lived in.

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kawaii_rose's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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juperson's review against another edition

4.5

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: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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rachel_cruceta's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Although the writing was repetitive at times (how many times can the same adjectives and phrases be used) and the storyline was predictable in the end I enjoyed it as a fast audiobook to listen to.

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madi_miss's review against another edition

1.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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