Narrative Nation

Hey nation!

If you know me, you know I’m a big fan of the powerless series, and because I refuse to read the newest book (fearful) I’m doing a review on the book before that, Fearless.

Is Fearless copy-written or captivating?

The time has finally come. After a year of waiting, the long-awaited fourth book in the

Powerless series by Lauren Roberts has been released. But with the arrival of the new book,

comes some questions. Is this book worth the hype? Will Kai and Paedyn end up together? Is

this book copy written like the others? And most importantly, is Kitt still a whining baby

who’s always depressed?

[SPOILER ALERT]

The book starts from where Reckless ends, Paedyn standing in the middle of the room with

her future husband in front of her and true love beside her. But the real question is, what

other choice does Paedyn have other than marrying the king, who also happens to be Kai’s

older brother?

After the first novel of Powerless, Paedyn is an ordinary—a person without powers who

people think have diseases—who finds a forbidden love with the Enforcer of Ilya during a

trial held in the book—obviously. At the end of the first novel, Paedyn kills the king in a fight

for her life after she finds out that her true love killed her father. Also known as, daddy

issues.

Paedyn, of course, runs away and Kitt—the new king— and sends his brother—the Enforcer

of the kingdom—to bring Paedyn back, and Kai, not sure if he can forgive Pae, agrees.

Thankfully, after a long game of cat and mouse between Kai and Pae, their previous love

was found again, but they both had one question. What was Kitt going to do to Pae once

Kai brought her back?

If you were thinking murder, the answer is wrong, as we find out in the last sentence of

Reckless that Paedyn is going to marry Kitt to unite the Elites and Ordinarys. Or maybe just

get back at his brother, who knows?

Anyway, after reading the series, most come to love the characters and the forbidden

romance, but a lot of people find a sense of deja-vu. For me, I thought it was just some of the

plot and troupe choices, but after a little outside research and a re-read from myself, I came

to find out that most of the series is copy-written. In fact, some of the moments are straight

up copied and pasted into the book.

Of course I felt heart broken that my ever so loved favorite characters were not original, but

that didn’t change the fact that almost nothing in this book comes from Lauren Robberts

own idea.

For example, in the first book, the author shows a trial coming up where people from all

cities compete for the kingdom’s entertainment. Does that sound familiar? Well if it does,

that is because the idea is pulled from Hunger Games in which they also have a trial. In The

Hunger Games, one person from each district is chosen to compete in three trials for the

entertainment of The Capitol.In another book, Red Queen, it is shown that people with red blood are poor and put down

for it and only the silverblood folks are worthy of anything. Of course, the female lead has

red blood and the male lead is royalty and has silver blood. This book also displays shows of

a love triangle with three princes and a division between the rich and poor and how the red

blood gets in between the royalty.

Are you seeing a theme here? Out of the whole series—Powerless, Reckless, and the novella,

Powerful— two out of three are copied from other books with the author even facing a

lawsuit. Thankfully, the novella Powerful is not copy written as it shows the story between a

side character and her love life before her death. But all of this makes everyone wonder if

the fourth and final book is copy written like the others?

I found that this book was actually not very copy written and though the romance between kai and pae was spot on with those moments where kai is the perfect drool worthy,

amazing and super obsessed lover, the actual plot was a bit lacking. I found that at some

parts of the book I was just waiting for it to be over and most have the same opinion about the pacing. One critic goes as far to say,

“All in all, it had so much potential… and it just didn’t live up to it. Disappointed but not surprised” (shanayaa).

Of course the book had another trial because you can never have enough of those, but I feel like they only put the trial in for the romance and no actual plot development, making the whole part useless

Towards the end of the book, I really wanted to hate Kitt, but the author put him in a

situation where he was in the wrong but was still put as a good guy in the end. Personally, I still hated him because lets be honest, no one liked his chapters when Kai and Pae are in an intense scene.

In all, if you’re ok with the inconsistent pace and some cringe worthy romance that makes you kick your feet and blush, this book is for you.

That’s all for today nation, come back next week for a new review!