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A review by abbieday01
Powerless by Lauren Roberts
5.0
It is now three days since I read the last line of this book - Three days since I pre-ordered book two (Reckless) and the novella (Powerful). Three days to think about how to write this review - what do you do say to a book that haunts your dreams - literally!! All I can see is what Kai will do to Paedyn....what Kitt will make him do because, like his father, he will use Kai as an extension of himself - to do all his dirty work.
So...Here it goes.
What I like about this book? Everything! It's a solid five star for me - characters, plot development, world building, tension, character growth - this book has it all and has it in abundance.
This book features a strong FMC, a protagonist Female that I hope to see meet her demise in book TWO (but undoubtedly she will somehow end up with one of the princes - just kill me now). A great set of secondary characters and support characters that you grow to love. A terrible villain support character - Ace - who gets what he deserves. Two princes, who are the MMC. One who is kind and sweet. One who has been molded into a monster of exponential proportions, the killing machine of the sadistic evil king.
Throw in a magic system where only the "Elites" are treated well, the mundanes are left to poverty and desperation and the ordinaries and Fatals are hunted down, tortured and killed and their relatives exiled into the desert without hope of survival by reaching the city on the other side.
And finally a competition that will pit all of these against one another in the midst of a rebellion rising.
What have you got? Action, love, betrayal, friendships, lost friendships, found family, enemies to almost lovers then to very much enemies once again, heart break, self-searching, truth seeking, and deciding what one believes and will hold true
And Finally - an ending that will absolutely KILL you!! UGHHHH......Lauren Roberts is now the queen of cliff hangers!! And just knowing that there will be a third makes me all knotted up knowing that if this cliff hanger was bad what will the second one be like?
Hint to reader: Just go right now and order the other two books because - you will want them when you finish.
So...Here it goes.
What I like about this book? Everything! It's a solid five star for me - characters, plot development, world building, tension, character growth - this book has it all and has it in abundance.
This book features a strong FMC, a protagonist Female that I hope to see meet her demise in book TWO (but undoubtedly she will somehow end up with one of the princes - just kill me now). A great set of secondary characters and support characters that you grow to love. A terrible villain support character - Ace - who gets what he deserves. Two princes, who are the MMC. One who is kind and sweet. One who has been molded into a monster of exponential proportions, the killing machine of the sadistic evil king.
Throw in a magic system where only the "Elites" are treated well, the mundanes are left to poverty and desperation and the ordinaries and Fatals are hunted down, tortured and killed and their relatives exiled into the desert without hope of survival by reaching the city on the other side.
And finally a competition that will pit all of these against one another in the midst of a rebellion rising.
What have you got? Action, love, betrayal, friendships, lost friendships, found family, enemies to almost lovers then to very much enemies once again, heart break, self-searching, truth seeking, and deciding what one believes and will hold true
And Finally - an ending that will absolutely KILL you!! UGHHHH......Lauren Roberts is now the queen of cliff hangers!! And just knowing that there will be a third makes me all knotted up knowing that if this cliff hanger was bad what will the second one be like?
Hint to reader: Just go right now and order the other two books because - you will want them when you finish.