Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Powerless by Lauren Roberts

131 reviews

pianokeys's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

notfastreader_14's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I love this book. I don't like Kitt not even gonna lie. It had me sweating and everything. Kai is just...wonderful. The way he speaks about her and to her, you can just tell her is head over heels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Suicide, Torture, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

sincerelysecret's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense 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

4.5

I loved this book it was addicting. I took away .5 because of the end of the book I know it was an intense moment but a little communication at all between the two main characters could have solved some of the problems. Another reason I took away .5 is that the entire time it reminded me of the Red Queen Series. This book was also a very slow burn unlike other slowburns this one was really good because there were reasons behind it. But defiantly a slow burn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Torture and Grief

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

idk_indigo's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This was a fun book, the plot made like some sense but also not really... the trials were kinda just thrown on there, and the dystopian/fantastical setting was weak. But I enjoyed it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Torture, Grief, and Religious bigotry

annadelreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

“Remind me to to make you smile like that again, when you aren't dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorize it.”

The world of Powerless is one of the most straight-forward fantasy series I've ever read. The world-building was easily understandable (with of course, a little mystery of how it came to be) and I was just immediately hooked. Paedyn is an Ordinary, which in the Kingdom of Ilya is a crime - punishable by death. Kai, on the other hand, is a prince of Ilya who's responsible to killing Ordinaries. When they say it's an enemies-to-lovers trope, it really is. They, at some point, have to really kill each other and at the same time, fall in love in the process. 

The romance in this book is really just one of the best I've read in a fantasy. The banter. The who-did-this? The secret identity. The freaking tension! The betrayals. The DUAL POV! I can list more but that's just really the top of my head. I devoured this so much, I just wanted to stay at home and read. I would have said that I wish I had seen more of Paedyn and Adena's friendship throughout the book but I guess that's why the author has written Powerful which is Adena's point of view throughout the Powerless story. The flaws I found is that when compared to Hunger Games, the voting wasn't really that beneficial and in my opinion, was really redundant. There was no real advantage if you're voted top stop or if there was, it wasn't explicitly explained unlike in HG. 

I've gotten this book earlier this year but was scared to read it because people all over social media adored it. So when Reckless was released, I was notified by our nearby bookstore that it's available and they have reserved it for me. So I had to get it and to finally start reading this book. Second week of July was definitely just me devouring the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Grief, Death of parent, and War

beckyremillard's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Animal death

danielle_lepp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and War

Minor: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

krosebooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Pros: Flirting is gold. 

Cons: Unrealistic power description. Lack of description about the length of the trials. Mirrored a lot of previous work like the hunger games, ACOTAR (darling). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

anna_iz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

lkristin2018's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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? No

4.0

A dark fantasy, reminiscent of Hunger Games, but with magic.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, and Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness and Sexual content