Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Powerless by Lauren Roberts

15 reviews

sophieh_'s review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

theespressoedition's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Blood, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

kirstenpod_'s review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Genocide, Cursing, Grief, Medical content, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol and Pandemic/Epidemic

busra425's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Blood

samantha_06x's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I loved this book, the chemistry between Kai and Pae ahhh!! and I love dual pov it can be so rare at the moment to find. 
As much as I enjoyed this book I didnt connect with the characters and the story as much as I would have liked. When sad things happened I wasn't crazy invested and it was a lil predictable. Its very hunger games but a lessened version the author a lot of the time feels the need to spell out the characters trauma to you and it becomes a recurring theme that I kind of got bored of hearing (I don't know if this is due to the nature of YA)

Will definitely be reading the next book when it comes out and im glad I read this book!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Torture, and Violence

olyviatb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

This is probably one of the best books I’ve ever read. It was the perfect combination of the hunger games meets the cruel prince meets acotar but all in a way that was unique to itself. I loved the world building, the lovable characters, the magic, the banter (especially the banter). It all went together so well and created a truly incredible story. I cannot wait until Reckless is out! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Classism, Confinement, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Confinement, and Grief

mercedesreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

5.0

This is book has completed destroyed me in every way possible and I'm so devastated that I can't read the next one just yet. I cried, I laughed, I smiled, and I felt e v e r y t h i n g in between. If you haven't read this book, don't walk — run to do go get it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, and Blood

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Torture, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Murder, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, and Misogyny

Minor: Drug use and Child death

mimo_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

dis went crazy im ngl
its a little bit hunger games coded and i was a hunger games girly so this worked out well 
would go hard read physically but i CANT DO THAT
points for kai being bootleg sel

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Child abuse

catherinedsharp's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I enjoyed this book however I also found it problematic and laughable in places.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the reading experience and found it to be a combination of Red Queen and The Hunger Games but it wasn’t the best. It was very tropey with some really problematic relationships, repetitive description/events and some major plot holes. It just didn’t feel like it had been properly developed. 

I don’t want to entirely criticise this book as it was kinda cool but just not what I thought it would be. I found myself laughing at points that were supposed to be tragic as I just didn’t care enough about the tragedy.

Overall I enjoyed it but it really wasn’t the greatest and I’m not sure if I’ll reread/continue with the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder