Showing posts with label Chase Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chase Brown. Show all posts

Saturday, January 31, 2026

Fearless

Fearless by Lauren Roberts

This conclusion to the Powerless series is filled with tons of twists and turns - way too many of them. The girl is going to be married to the "wrong" boy. It would have been nice to see her end up with the "true love" instead, but you knew it would not happen. A single twist could have done it. Instead there were dozens. She kills thet rue love, only to later find out it was somebody in disguise. She finds out that she is actually an abandoned royal daughter.  A friend is not actually a friend. There was a plot to spread the plague around and the King was both noble and crazy. In the end, the king dies, she discovers that she is the royal rather than the guy she loves and they get to live happily ever after and have kids. Remove three quarters of the sub-plots and this could be a good book.

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Reckless

Reckless by Lauren Roberts

The book starts out with the two lovers hating each other because each has killed the other's father. It ends with them reconciling, but with his brother proposing marriage to her. In there the middle, there is non-stop Hollywood-style adventure. He chases her and after various escapes finally catches her. Then she is rescued and he is caught. Then they are both caught. They run through escapes and "play lovers" a few time before realizing they do love each other. They find out more about their past and the societal plans. Finally they reach his brother who is now the ruler. There are plenty of twists and turns that are just plausible enough to work, with the relationship gradually growing in a believable fashion. The world building remains a little confusing, but is not super important.

Friday, January 23, 2026

Powerless

Powerless by Lauren Roberts

in a post-apocalyptic world, some people have "special powers". These people with the powers have taken power and relegated the "ordinaries" to a lower class. There are even people that go out and try to kill off any ordinary people. The society has a hunger-games style competition where people with special powers compete and kill each other, with some voted on by the general public. Into this situation, a boy meets a girl. The girl is an ordinary who fakes a predictive power (she is just very observant and can guess things about people when seeing them.) The boy is the son of the king. He works as the "enforcer", killing off ordinaries, though he has a soft spot for kids. They fall for each other, yet they also compete with each other. At the end, we learn that each has killed the other's father. There is not much original in this book, but the story telling is a bit better than similar books.