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Powerful by Lauren Roberts

15 reviews

literarymary95's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Despite this novella not really adding much to the original book (Powerless) other than

how Adena ended up at the center of the final trial as the sacrifice

, it was still an interesting read and see how Adena's character influenced Paedyn's.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Violence, and Death of parent

I'm hoping Makoto will be added into the rest of the series because I think that would be a really great idea, especially considering the circumstances that happen at the end of Powerless/Powerful. I think he could actually add a lot to the plot that continues the series.

vj_thompson's review

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

“See you in the sky.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Colonisation, Classism, Torture, and Grief

Minor: Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Stalking

snapeygan's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

As for the first book of the serie, I’m not a fan of the way it’s written. But I am fan of the twists and the characters. I knew what would happen, but deep down I kept hoping that somehow what happened in the first book didnt happen for real (and even though it still happened AGAIN, I will keep hope, leave me alone). I can’t wait to read the sequel!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Torture, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Abandonment, and Grief

bujo_bellel's review

emotional funny sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

*spoiler for Powerless*


I unfortunately couldn't fully enjoy it knowing what happens in the end T.T. I really enjoyed reading Adena's story and I loved how the author brings her to life in this book since we didn't have much time to get to know her in Powerless!! I really liked Mak and Adena's story, and I'm so sad that Adena did not have the chance to tell her about Mak!! I wonder if he will play a bigger part in the next book seeing as

He has the same power as Kai. I kind of hope that they don't meet each other early so that Kai doesn't kill him (or the other way)

I wonder how Mak will affect the characters in the next book and I am very interested to see how it plays out in the end :) Seeing as we didn't get much time with the characters, I couldn't really give the book higher than 3.5 stars, especially as I went through it knowing what will happen to Adena in the end because of Powerless :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Grief

Minor: Violence, Death of parent, and Cursing

pastorscratchy1reads's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I already knew what was going to happen and I still was almost crying at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Cursing

izzyreads13's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

I loved powerless and was very excited to get into powerful. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the dynamic between Adena and Mak, as it was very different tot he relationships we see in Powerless. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. There’s a lot of funny banter between the two of them and it’s engaging and makes you want to proceed with the story. Since it is a Novela, their relationship does progress rather quickly, but it never doesn’t make sense, it manages to speed up and get to where it needs to be without sacrificing a lot of relationship building between the two of them. I also do personally relate a lot to Adena so I loved seeing her perspective and her story and this book did give me all the more reason to love her.

Due to the short nature of the book, there’s not a lot this book focuses on besides her relationship with Mak which is this books only “set back” to me, as I’d hope to see more interactions with Paedyn but I understand why that maybe couldn’t be possible. Despite that however I did enjoy the mentions of all the other characters from the first book.

Kai, Kitt and the king

all make appearances and we get to see how they each interact with Adena and her thoughts on each of them. I 

Overall, I did enjoy this book and piece of the story, I loved their dynamic, how different it was from the first books dynamics, how they progressed with one another and grew. The only reason I don’t rate this higher is simply because of the fact that it’s short (which is a given) so some things that I may have personally liked to see more of, didn’t occur. But the story itself was beautiful and well written as was powerless and if you’re a lover of the grumpy x sunshine trope I HIGHLY recommend this book to you. 

Happy reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Death

Minor: Cursing, Death, Blood, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

spatterson7's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death

Moderate: Grief, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content, Death of parent, Classism, and Cursing

roenn1010's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

so this book was just Lauren Roberts SICK WAY OF MAKING LOSE ADENA ALL OVER AGAIN! I will never be able to look at the sun the same way AGAIN! I hate you for making me love them so much!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

lakinglaze's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

I enjoyed getting to know Adena more and see how she was spending her time during the trails. The chapters around her death were heartbreaking and beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Blood, Kidnapping, Confinement, Torture, Sexual harassment, Grief, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

readwithsophsx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Physical abuse, Cursing, Grief, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, and Confinement