Book Title: Powerless
Author: Lauren Roberts
Genre: Fantasy
Target Audience: Young Adult
Publication date: July 6th 2023
Format: Kindle
What it’s about
Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya . . . Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in the most epic and sizzling fantasy romance book of the year.
The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom of Ilya and shunned from society.
No one knows this better than Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary posing as a Psychic to blend in with the Elites. When she unsuspectingly saves one of Ilya’s princes, Kai Azer, she’s thrown into the Purging Trials, a brutal competition showcasing the Elites’ powers.
If the Trials and the opponents within them don’t kill her, the prince she’s fighting feelings for will if he discovers what Paedyn is . . . completely Ordinary.
Be swept away by the first in the romantasy trilogy taking the world by storm!
What I thought
This is by far my favourite read of 2023 so once I got into the flow I found it so difficult to put down. I was a bit iffy with the connection to the Red Queen series but my curiosity got the better of me and I’m so thankful for it.
The plot certainly itsit’s own spin on things and I like the idea that there was actually a problem and that it was put into people’s minds by someone in Power.
Paedyn was very much like Katniss personality-wise which is where the similarities with The Hunger Games begin but sometimes I felt she was a little flat. Usually, she was wearing her pretty dresses but I feel like this might have been done purposefully to show her discomfort in this situation.
Kai is the typical MMC for this genre of book but I did take to him pretty much straight away which is unusual so there is that.
I would like to see more differences between Kai and Kitts’s upbringing as I do think this will make things a little more interesting.
Can’t wait for Book 2
Star rating
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