Reckless - Lauren Roberts - Review & summary
Before Fearless is out! Let's catch up!
Lauren Roberts Fearless book is about to get delivered to me on the 8th of April. What a better time to summarize the last book than now?
Let’s just do a quick catch up:
SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY
Book 1
Paedyn (a powerless girl living in a city where EVERYONE BUT HER has powers), and Kai (a prince, that can copy everyone’s power) have been thrown into… Hunger games x3.
During the games they grow fond of one another and set up a small alliance to survive the process (Yes… I swear it’s not Hunger games).
They bicker like good, old marriage, threaten each other, and there’s a whole lot of things that made me look what was the age of the author.
This finished with Paedyn killing the king. Who… wouldn’t die it he wouldn’t be such a prick there to try and kill her in the first place.
This makes Kai’s brother send Kai (as the new king’s Enforcer) to go an kill Paedyn.
Powerless by Lauren Roberts Honest Review
Instagram made me buy it - and it became one of the kickstarters of my big come back to the world of reading. I have gotten through it back in April, during my not so glamorous time of catching chickenpox as an adult. Needed something to take my mind off the… itch.
Book 2 - or 1.5? (powerful)
I cannot summarize it if I tried. Same thing, different POV’s… worst planning ever.
I ranted about it already:
Reckless review (book 2) or… 3?
SPOILERS - ALSO A RANT
Reckless takes us to a different place. While we continue the idea of Kai hunting Paedyn for the murder of the king. In a way - rightfully so. Killing the king is usually no bueno. At the same time - if they communicated and if Paedyn said what happened - maybe this story would go way different way.
Remember kids: Communication is THE KEY.
Anyway…
Paedyn has only one chance to run - it’s through the desert that wold take her to one of the cities where no one has powers. She’d be safe there, right? RIGHT!?
NO!
Kai goes after her, there’s a whole regiment of soldiers with him (to power the boy up I guess… He turned out to be pretty… useless powerless (pun intended) without a steady flow of people with actual power.
In the meantime - Kai’s brother (the new king) - Kitt, has decided to share Paedyn’s face all over the continent with a prize for her (dead or alive - this will be important later).
For some reason I don’t understand why would Kitt write “dead or alive” when he really, REALLY wants her alive. But I digress. I will say that it was a teenager tantrum and move on with my day.
His POV is shared in the book, and he actually gets an advice from an adult - followed by a small, velvet box (at which point I knew exactly what’s in the box).
Again… anyway…
Paedyn and Kai get themselves into trouble. Why, you may ask? Well, because of Kitt, who has made it clear that Paedyn’s head is worth a lot of money. You know how much it helps the enforcer to do his job?
Exactly, it doesn’t.
Does it put them in a ton of danger and ultimately makes them hurt and on the verge of dying? YES!
Again… teenager tantrum and bad choices. Kitt should find himself in the corner thinking about what he’d done.
Back to Paedyn and Kai…
They obviously have “a thing” going on, and it does not get any easier. Leaving them alone was actually as if Kitt was asking for trouble (again, bad choices). Of course, the book is full of bickering, trying to hide emotions, not communicating enough (COMMUNICATION! 😤).
In the meantime some things come back to light, and Paedyn has a little mental breakdown followed by things that “women do” when they need a change. You guessed it - she cut her hair. Shocking, isn’t it?
Anyway. Kai comes to his right mind when they are already almost back to the castle, and you guessed it, they get captured, and Paedyn is being brought to the king.
What king does? Exactly what I have anticipated (you probably remember now). He bends the knee and asks for her hand.
Nothing says “I love you, please marry me” like setting a big price for your head “dead or alive”, burning your childhood home, getting you hurt, and hunted.
I don’t know about you, but my therapist would say “no”.
Anyway… I want to know how it ends, so I pre-ordered the next book (3 or 4?)
Did I miss something?
Star review:
Fantasy factor: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Romance: Still ⭐️⭐️
Storytelling: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hunger games: 0/5 (just to continue the #1 review)
Stupid decisions made: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Repetitive theme: ⭐️⭐️
Plot: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I knew what’s in the box since it showed up ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (this is star rating for myself)
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.7/5 (cliffhanger + read this one in 3 days)
This book was good! The story got creative and I could NOT stop reading. I kinda knew what’s in the box and I was right! Which got me even more excited. Pre-ordered book 3 (or 4… however we look at it).