September has been a slow reading month for me, I needed a bit of a breather after reading a lot of books in August and preparing to read 13 books for a challenge in October.
The last book I read I finished a few days ago, and the book is Powerless by Lauren Roberts. What was nice about this book is that I found it very enjoyable, since September has been a bit of a reading slump for me. Most of the books I have read this month has been mediocre or below. Powerless was surprisingly entertaining even if there were certain points where I did cringe at how obviously inspired by The Hunger Games it is. One of the characters in this book is essentially Effie Trinket and her lines could have been cut and pasted directly from The Hunger Games. The ending was a little unsatisfactory and a very clear “book two” set-up. Other than that I found the book very enjoyable.
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.
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