Powerless

The Hunger Games strike again…the Elite with power against the Ordinaries with none…a battle of lies and pain.

Powerless
Powerless by Lauren Roberts, reviewed by Fae Reviews

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Review

Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy #1)

🔗Author: Lauren Roberts
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Note that there’s a novella, Powerful, starring a secondary character from the original trilogy.

Highlights

This story will squeeze your heart and leave it shaky while following all the action, pain, and injustice throughout. 

What to Expect

  • A kind of Hunger Games
  • Impossible love
  • Potential love triangle
  • Enemies to lovers
  • Incipient romantic endeavours
  • Injustice, lies, secrets and betrayal
  • Cruelty, violence, death
  • Monstrous characters
  • Deadly action
  • Powerful vs powerless
  • Well-built characters with complex lives
  • Loving secondary characters

What I Missed

  • It was a great story, full of tension and unafraid of unleashing what it needed to—even if it meant making us witness unfair and painful death. That said, it’s fine to retell fragments and characteristics from legends and other stories, but the Hunger Games were too present in my head while reading the book. I wanted to forget its similarities.
  • There’s a moment where vital information is revealed. That instance felt too easy. I think the characters should have fought a bit more to gain the whole picture of what they needed, instead of gaining a silver-platter delivery.
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I’ll be reviewing the sequel to this story, Reckless, next month, so stay tuned!
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