Powerless

The Powerless Trilogy, Book 1

By: Lauren Roberts

Narrated by: Chase Brown, Cecily Bednar Schmidt

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Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this sizzling fantasy romance not to be missed.

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya . . . The exceptional. The Elites. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom and shunned from society.

No one knows this better than Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary posing as an Elite. When she unsuspectingly saves one of Ilya’s princes, Kai Azer, she’s thrown into the Purging Trials, a brutal competition to showcase her ‘Elite’ powers.

If the Trials and the opponents don’t kill her, the prince she’s fighting feelings for will if he discovers what Paedyn really is . . . completely Ordinary.

Be swept away by the first in the smash hit, dagger-to-the-throat romantasy trilogy that's taken the world by storm.

Also Available: Reckless, Powerful, Fearless and Fearful.

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*Powerless was UK YA number 1 on TCM w/e 1st June 2024

©2023 Lauren Roberts. All rights reserved (P)2023 Simon & Schuster, UK. All Rights Reserved.

Loved it

Was hooked from the beginning; couldn’t stop listening, loved the voices for the main characters

Love this book

What an adventure this book takes you on. Kai is incredible and the characters are all so rich. Cannot wait to read book 2.

entriging

The banter between Kai and Payden was so much fun. It's hard to remember its only the beginnig of this wonderful story. Its like being in the scenes it self.

powerless

i love the story , the plot twist , the intensity between kai and pae

amazing

Im amazed really to much aaaaaaa aaaa a a a a a a scfv f f f evegt rgrut thrtd rhettf fgrygd

I don’t know what to feel

I seriously can’t pinpoint on one emotion towards this book I liked kai’s character and kitt’s but I can’t find it in me to overlook their cruelty towards ordinary human and specially towards the woman they both loved. Even before finishing the first book I bought the second, so let us see where it goes. The narrators didn’t put enough effort into their performances.

A fierce, addictive opening. If you’re not obsessed by the end, were you even paying attention?

What A Start. Powerless had me in a chokehold from chapter one. Paedyn is the underdog we didn’t know we needed—clever, cunning, and absolutely impossible not to root for. And then there’s Kai. Dark, dangerous, and drowning in complexity. The tension between them? Literal sparks.

This world is brutal, the system unforgiving, and Lauren Roberts doesn’t pull punches. But amid the blood and betrayal, there’s this crackling slow-burn romance that unravels you. I gasped, I clutched my metaphorical pearls, I became feral.

WOW

The narrators voices are PERFECT!!! And the story is amazing. Really well written and well performed.

Some of the best fantasy I’ve read in a long time.

Powerless is a fantasy with amazing world building and a captivating plot but at its heart Powerless is really a the story of a forbidden and imposible romance. Love, hate, politics, betrayal. Powerless has something for everybody.
Safe to say that through all the twists and turns I wasn’t disappointed once. Pick this book up and believe me, you won’t regret it.

Listening to a book might hurt more than reading.

I thought it would hurt less hearing than reading. but it was the opposite. I knew the ending before I started this book. nope. pain is still pain.