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Powerless (Powerless, #1)

Lauren Roberts,

Cristina Macía Orio (Translator)

Start date: June 1, 2025

Finish date: July 1, 2025

Why we're reading this: 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔
౨ৎ BOTM
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౨ৎ YA
౨ৎ Fantasy
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[close] 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔
౨ৎ BOTM
౨ৎ Poll winner
౨ৎ YA
౨ৎ Fantasy
౨ৎ No spice

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Jul 16, 2025 Ava ୨ৎ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: buddy-read

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Edit:
After thinking about it for a few months I decided to bring down my rating… honestly the mane reason I gave it 4 stars was because I felt forced to because of the hype and the cover is gorgeous. It’s not a bad book, but just kinda mediocre. I liked the ending sure, but there was a lot I didn’t like. I kinda want to continue the series to see if it gets better or worse

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I have a lot of mixed opinions, but it was a really good book overall. I found it a bit hard to get into ...more

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Apr 17, 2025 Savannah ♡ (Taylor's version) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favs

i love this book so so muchhh. i just bought the whole series and can’t wait to read it!!! kai + paedyn for life!!!

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Mar 09, 2025 Smriti Sudarshan rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: girlboss, fantasy, enemies-to-lovers, lowkey-boring, good-writing-bad-plot, complex-ahh-romance

this book is literally a disappointment to booktok for three reasons -
1. it is DOWNRIGHT plagiarism of three books - the selection, red queen, and the hunger games. the kingdom name in the selection is Illea - in powerless the kingdom's name is Illya. the power system is set up as elites vs ordinaries - which reminds me of - you guessed it - red vs silver blood in red queen!
oh we want more red queen plagiarism examples? the love triangle with two brothers, a powerless person pretending to have this book is literally a disappointment to booktok for three reasons -
1. it is DOWNRIGHT plagiarism of three books - the selection, red queen, and the hunger games. the kingdom name in the selection is Illea - in powerless the kingdom's name is Illya. the power system is set up as elites vs ordinaries - which reminds me of - you guessed it - red vs silver blood in red queen!
oh we want more red queen plagiarism examples? the love triangle with two brothers, a powerless person pretending to have powers, who's secretly a rebel because shes sick of the people with powers being in charge - all of that is straight up plagiarized from red queen. and the whole purging trials is a straight copy of the hunger games themselves - teenagers fight to the death, its all televised, and not to mention paedyn was taught archery from her father. HELLO!? DOES NO ONE ELSE SEE THIS!?
2. the kai azer bs is out of hand. he is the most OVERHYPED man on booktok. i once read a comment saying that kai's whole personality is paedyn and i havent been able to unhear it. not only is he a clear example of men written by women, he is SO BLAND. there is nothing about him that makes him different than the average booktok guy! he is like the john smith of booktok - nothing special about this one! booktok is getting out of hand - when a woman writes a man in fantasy it really shows! they're so unrealistic it actually bothers me. and the forced brother love triangle also was not it. no chemistry between paedyn and kitt. dont piss me off
3. this book is hyped beyond what i thought possible. not to mention the crazy powerless fans that are kind of like the swifties of booktok - i dare you to say a single word against powerless in a booktok video comment section. i get that its a good book for people who are starting out reading but beyond that? it kind of highkey sucked. if theres anyone out there who read red queen, the hunger games and the selection who actually LIKED powerless - please enlighten me. i dont see it at all.
paedyn and kai have chemistry, but this is also overhyped. wtf is that shitty kai azer booktok audio with the ai-ass voice that goes "oh darling" like UMMMM THE AI VOICE IS INSANE. DONNNTTTT piss me off 🤨🤨 ...more

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May 16, 2025 Corabean rated it it was amazing

I Love this book so much! I definetly recommend this to 7th grade or 8th because it is a little bit mature, but overall this book is one of my most favorites!

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