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moonylovesstars's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
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
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
ladybug12793's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
fast-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
4.25
Enthralling.
I love a good deadly trials book. The plot twists were somewhat obvious, but the book was still very entertaining. I didn’t want to set it down.
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One of my favorite quotes I’ve read:
I love a good deadly trials book. The plot twists were somewhat obvious, but the book was still very entertaining. I didn’t want to set it down.
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One of my favorite quotes I’ve read:
“I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important. Not until I looked into a pair of ocean-blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing. Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing. Not until I looked into a pair of sky-blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing. I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn’t seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Death, Hate crime, and Death of parent
Minor: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
courtnetto's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
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
4.0
I’m really enjoying reading fantasy books and envisioning the worlds and the scenes in my head as I read.
This book follows Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer. Paedyn is an “Ordinary” who claims to have Psychic powers, but she is called upon to take part in the purging trials. Paedyn is unsure how this happened but says that her sole plan is to survive, however, little does she know that the King knows that she is an ordinary as they were responsible for the death of Paedyn’s father. Paedyn makes it to the third and final trial but doesn’t win as they brutally placed her bestfriend in the maze to be killed in order for the trial to be won - but Paedyn being the devoted bestfriend she is could not bring herself to kill her own bestfriend, the bestfriend who she brought there because of her skills as a seamstress. Sadly, Paedyn’s bestfriend is unfortunately killed by a fellow contestant much to Paedyn’s upset.
This in turn causes her to run away as it breaks her heart to see her bestfriend laid lifeless with a branch through her chest - but also because of the Resistance coming in to the Bowl due to her own doing.
Only when she is running away, she encounters the King himself who is now going out to kill Paedyn like they did her father. Except, Paedyn comes out on top and she kills the King, which of course breaks the hearts of Kitt and Kai who she had developed close bonds with. During this time, the King tells her that he was not the one who killed her father, but that is was in fact the prince she is close to (Kai).
After realising what she had done, she ran again and never looked back…
I really loved the character of Kai and I feel for him so much after what Paedyn had done to him, but not only him, but also what she did to Kitt by betraying him in order to let the Resistance in to the Bowl while the last trial was ongoing.
It only dropped a star because it took me a bit of time to get into the book itself. It took me even longer to finish the book - clearly I’ve dropped off the reading train recently🙈🤣
This book follows Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer. Paedyn is an “Ordinary” who claims to have Psychic powers, but she is called upon to take part in the purging trials. Paedyn is unsure how this happened but says that her sole plan is to survive, however, little does she know that the King knows that she is an ordinary as they were responsible for the death of Paedyn’s father. Paedyn makes it to the third and final trial but doesn’t win as they brutally placed her bestfriend in the maze to be killed in order for the trial to be won - but Paedyn being the devoted bestfriend she is could not bring herself to kill her own bestfriend, the bestfriend who she brought there because of her skills as a seamstress. Sadly, Paedyn’s bestfriend is unfortunately killed by a fellow contestant much to Paedyn’s upset.
This in turn causes her to run away as it breaks her heart to see her bestfriend laid lifeless with a branch through her chest - but also because of the Resistance coming in to the Bowl due to her own doing.
Only when she is running away, she encounters the King himself who is now going out to kill Paedyn like they did her father. Except, Paedyn comes out on top and she kills the King, which of course breaks the hearts of Kitt and Kai who she had developed close bonds with. During this time, the King tells her that he was not the one who killed her father, but that is was in fact the prince she is close to (Kai).
After realising what she had done, she ran again and never looked back…
I really loved the character of Kai and I feel for him so much after what Paedyn had done to him, but not only him, but also what she did to Kitt by betraying him in order to let the Resistance in to the Bowl while the last trial was ongoing.
It only dropped a star because it took me a bit of time to get into the book itself. It took me even longer to finish the book - clearly I’ve dropped off the reading train recently🙈🤣
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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