Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Fearless by Lauren Roberts

38 reviews

mfrenz's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous emotional sad 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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Extremely disappointing end to the series. A lot of loose ends dismissed and frankly disappointing directions taken with the characters. At least half of the book was a waste of time. Sad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship

Minor: Incest, Infidelity

lakinglaze's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Everything but the last three hours, 5-stars. The last three hours, 2-stars. I love Kai. I just didn’t like that ending and the time cut was too cookie cutter for me. But the rest of the book, so good! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

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

tired_cicada's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It’s really my own fault for continuing with this series after book two was so repetitive that it could have been an email. But I pushed through, mostly casue

I needed to be able to call Kai a whiny bitch if he was butt hurt about Paedyn accepting Kitt’s offer instead of dying. And he WAS a whiny bitch the entire book!!! You had so many chances you loser! You made your bed now lie in it

There was so much nonsense. The formatting was a nightmare. The way information is released was so disjointed. The characters motivations came out of left field

kitt’s plans make no sense for his actions!! Also, his decent into madness should have started all the way in the first book. He KNEW there was a chance that peadyn was his sister, and STILL tried to marry her? Also his the way he talked about his BROTHER was so oddly homoerotic. Why was there so much incest in this book?!? And then they named DAUGHTER after him? Get away from me. I hate it

 

Just like every other book it needed two or three more round of editing. It needed to cut at LEAST 3k words of nonsense. 

The plagiarism allegations are not going away with this book. 

Overall it was 50% derivative nonsense, 25% horrible dialogue, 15% Kai and Paedyn being annoying

we can’t be together, but we will flirt regularly and constantly infront of your fiancé who is also my brother but wait HOW does he know we still want each other? We’ve been so sneaky! Let’s have sex on top of my sister’s grave

, 7% actually enjoyable content, 3% incest. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Terminal illness, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism

Minor: Incest, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

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

millapreller_2008's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is a great closing to the Powerless series. I don't think I've ever read a book that had made me tear up as much as this one has and I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

To see the way that Paedyn and Kai's story reaches an end, and to see how they still got together after everything they suffered through, together and apart, makes me truely smile. To the author who will probably never see this, thank you for writing this. The ammount of love and care ypu have for your story is inspiring and thank you for sharing these amazing characters with the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Incest, Infidelity

eprevost's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Pandemic/Epidemic

withloveandlights's review against another edition

1.0

adventurous dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This entire book doesn’t need the fantasy setting. It boils down to being a poorly executed family drama

with blatant incest and mental illness being used as the major plot points.

Like all of her previous novels, this could be a stand alone as none of the prior books are really necessary for any of minimal plot within this story. 

And then the unnecessary bleak ending really just sealed the deal for the low rating. 

Regardless of your enjoyment level of the other books, I unfortunately wouldn’t recommend finishing the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury