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Powerless by Lauren Roberts
3.0

I have some very conflicting opinions about this book. I went into it knowing I probably wasn’t gonna like it very much just because it’s aimed at a younger aged demographic. I did enjoy it though. My only issue with this book was that it felt like the inspirations were a little too obvious, I’m not really sure if that makes sense. What I mean to say is, I could tell that she was inspired by things like the hunger games and honestly, it felt a little like she was hiding behind specific tropes that are common in fantasy books. Fantasy isn’t really my genre so maybe that is where I am falling short when it comes to this, but I feel like I’ve read something similar to this before.

With that being said, I enjoyed it enough to go on and finish the series. And the real driving reason for this is the characters, I loved the characters in this book and even though at times the plot felt a little lacking. The characters always made up for that.