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A review by ashley_mrose530
Powerless by Lauren Roberts
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
I had a lot of fun with this book. I liked the characters. Kai and Paedyn had so much chemistry and I loved Kai and Kit's relationship as well as them with Jax. I thought both Kai and Paedyn were so smart and the author did a great job of keeping their characters consistent throughout the book. I also liked the idea of the plot with the Elites and the Ordinaries and a Hunger Games style fight-to-the-death tournament. I always love a good superpower plot line and combining that with the Hunger Games was a fantastic idea.
Unfortunately there were quite a few things that didn't work in this book. One of those is the world building. I really have no idea why they have this tournament. It would have made sense to me if it was all Ordinaries participating in it but to have it all be Elites killing each other doesn't make sense. I thought they wanted the Elites to be the only ones in this society? Why are they forcing them to kill each other? And what's the motivation for being in the tournament? Bragging rights? That wouldn't be enough to get a majority of people to risk their life so I don't think it's very realistic.
There is also an issue of timing here. There was supposedly only two weeks between when Paedyn found out she was going to be in the tournament and the actual start of the trials and in that time I'm supposed to believe that Paedyn felt so guilty about forgetting about her friend, for like a week, that sheblames her death on herself? I don't feel like that was enough time to say she completely forgot about her friend considering everything else that was happening. I also don't think two weeks was enough time for all the training and everything that happened in that time. Also her friend was suppose to have sewed an entire dress in less than two weeks? That's also fairly unrealistic. And then after that first trial, we don't really get a time frame and I have no idea how much time passes but that was probably better than the two weeks that we were told about.
So even though I did really enjoy this book, it still had those two huge faults. I think I do want to read the next one though and see how the story progresses.
Unfortunately there were quite a few things that didn't work in this book. One of those is the world building. I really have no idea why they have this tournament. It would have made sense to me if it was all Ordinaries participating in it but to have it all be Elites killing each other doesn't make sense. I thought they wanted the Elites to be the only ones in this society? Why are they forcing them to kill each other? And what's the motivation for being in the tournament? Bragging rights? That wouldn't be enough to get a majority of people to risk their life so I don't think it's very realistic.
There is also an issue of timing here. There was supposedly only two weeks between when Paedyn found out she was going to be in the tournament and the actual start of the trials and in that time I'm supposed to believe that Paedyn felt so guilty about forgetting about her friend, for like a week, that she
So even though I did really enjoy this book, it still had those two huge faults. I think I do want to read the next one though and see how the story progresses.