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The Powerless Trilogy #3.5
Fearful
Love too grand, it kills.
Mara never intended to set foot in Ilya again. But when the king makes a life-altering decision, her interest is piqued, and Death is determined to understand Kitt Azer’s mind if he is destined to join her in the Mors.
Spending time with the king while observing the castle’s inhabitants reminds Mara that there is more to life than just death. There is love. But even the purest of intentions spur revenge and the pursuit of power. And fate will have its way with all of them—to live, to rule, to love, and most certainly, to die….
Mara never intended to set foot in Ilya again. But when the king makes a life-altering decision, her interest is piqued, and Death is determined to understand Kitt Azer’s mind if he is destined to join her in the Mors.
Spending time with the king while observing the castle’s inhabitants reminds Mara that there is more to life than just death. There is love. But even the purest of intentions spur revenge and the pursuit of power. And fate will have its way with all of them—to live, to rule, to love, and most certainly, to die….
211 pages, Hardcover
First published September 2, 2025
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Lauren Roberts
11 books58.7k followersWhen Lauren Roberts isn't writing about fantasy worlds and bantering love interests, she can likely be found burrowed in bed reading about them. Lauren has lived in Michigan her whole life, which makes her very familiar with potholes, snow, and various lake activities. She has the hobbies of both a grandmother and a child: knitting, laser tag, hammocking, word searches, and coloring. Powerless is her first novel (now a New York Times Best Seller), and she hopes to have the privilege of writing pretty words for the rest of her life. If you enjoy ranting, reading, and writing, Lauren can be found on both TikTok and Instagram @Laurenrobertslibrary for your entertainment.
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September 14, 2025ೃ ⁀➷
pre-view:
🎯
Villain origin story unlocked… my heart didn’t sign up for this..
Yes, I see the disaster coming, and I amnot fully prepared to sob through it. Wish me luck!
PS: If this flops… Lauren, I’m coming for your cat🎀
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📢 “THE SILENCE IS OVER. KITT’S SIDE OF THE STORY IS HERE.”
-The villain is finally getting his voice!“His letters cracked me. His POV will wreck me.”
Lauren Roberts really said:
"You want closure?”
Here’s emotional devastation with poetic prose and a side of grief.
“Love too grand, it kills.”
Oh okay??Did Lauren have to stab me in the back, front, AND soul with that one line??☝🏻😭 So we’re not healing this year?? We’re unraveling emotionally page by page?!“We read kitt's goodbye. Now we hear his rage.”
Kitt’s novella isn’t a side story.
It’s the final blow,emotional autopsy.
It's 100+ pages of him being soft, haunted, kingly, doomed, and in love — and I’m supposed to survive that???
It’s Mara, the Reaper, walking Ilya’s halls like a ghost of what never should’ve bloomed.
It’s Kitt Azer, king of restraint, finally choosing something for himself…
And of course, it’s going to cost him everything💔This novella going to the reason I won’t be okay all September!!
This book really said "what if Death fell in love and it was the beginning of the end" and i haven't breathed since 😭💔Kitt MY SHAYLA!!!They can never make me hate you, Kitt."...
➷ WHAT TO EXPECT (and cry through):
🔖Mara: cold, eternal,maybe immortal — and suddenly curious about the boy who chose power over peace.
🔖Kitt Azer: the king, the fighter, the flame — stepping into the darkness with nothing but his crown and convictions.
🔖Longing so sharp it bleeds into every page.
🔖Death watching the living fall in love — until it happens to her.
🔖Tension. Regret. Fate with a dagger. And love that could ruin them both.
🔖 A castle full of secrets. A throne built on sacrifice. A war of hearts no one walks away from unscathed.
🔖Kitt Azer, you haunted me in Fearless. And now?? NOW I HAVE TO WATCH YOU CHOOSE LOVE WHEN I KNOW HOW THIS ENDS??? No. No. No. 😭💔
🔖This isn’t closure.
This is a wound with no name.
And baby—I’ll keep reading it anyway.
🎭 THE VIBE?
This isn’t just a novella.
It’s a funeral dressed like a love story.
It’s the slow realization that maybe Death was never heartless — just waiting for the right one to destroy her.
And maybe Kitt Azer was always doomed to be that boy.
📢 “You Hated Him—Now You’ll Hurt For Him.”
Because once the villain starts speaking…
You’ll wish he never stopped.
Even when it destroys you.
📣 Sound the alarms.
This is aching glances.
Soft touches that mean too much.
The kind of love that was never meant to survive.
The kind of love that might break the world.
Or save it.
Fearless gave us war.
Fearful is about what that war cost.
AND I AM NOT OKAY. 😭💔
🎯 If 2025 is the year of crying over fictional men with crowns and wounded hearts—then LET IT BE.
Bring the tissues. Bring the playlist. Let this novella wreck us beautifully. I AM READY TO CRY AGAIN!! This is giving 90% fate, 10% forbidden longing, and 100% going to leave me staring at the wall with my annotated tabs and destroyed will to function.“I don’t care what happens. I’m choosing delusion over devastation.”
GIVE.IT.TO.ME.RN!!! 💥 💳
Villain origin story unlocked… my heart didn’t sign up for this..
Yes, I see the disaster coming, and I am
PS: If this flops… Lauren, I’m coming for your cat🎀
-----
📢 “THE SILENCE IS OVER. KITT’S SIDE OF THE STORY IS HERE.”
-The villain is finally getting his voice!“His letters cracked me. His POV will wreck me.”
Lauren Roberts really said:
"You want closure?”
Here’s emotional devastation with poetic prose and a side of grief.
“Love too grand, it kills.”
Oh okay??Did Lauren have to stab me in the back, front, AND soul with that one line??☝🏻😭 So we’re not healing this year?? We’re unraveling emotionally page by page?!“We read kitt's goodbye. Now we hear his rage.”
Kitt’s novella isn’t a side story.
It’s the final blow,emotional autopsy.
It's 100+ pages of him being soft, haunted, kingly, doomed, and in love — and I’m supposed to survive that???
It’s Mara, the Reaper, walking Ilya’s halls like a ghost of what never should’ve bloomed.
It’s Kitt Azer, king of restraint, finally choosing something for himself…
And of course, it’s going to cost him everything💔This novella going to the reason I won’t be okay all September!!
This book really said "what if Death fell in love and it was the beginning of the end" and i haven't breathed since 😭💔Kitt MY SHAYLA!!!They can never make me hate you, Kitt."...
➷ WHAT TO EXPECT (and cry through):
🔖Mara: cold, eternal,
🔖Kitt Azer: the king, the fighter, the flame — stepping into the darkness with nothing but his crown and convictions.
🔖Longing so sharp it bleeds into every page.
🔖Death watching the living fall in love — until it happens to her.
🔖Tension. Regret. Fate with a dagger. And love that could ruin them both.
🔖 A castle full of secrets. A throne built on sacrifice. A war of hearts no one walks away from unscathed.
🔖Kitt Azer, you haunted me in Fearless. And now?? NOW I HAVE TO WATCH YOU CHOOSE LOVE WHEN I KNOW HOW THIS ENDS??? No. No. No. 😭💔
🔖This isn’t closure.
This is a wound with no name.
And baby—I’ll keep reading it anyway.
🎭 THE VIBE?
This isn’t just a novella.
It’s a funeral dressed like a love story.
It’s the slow realization that maybe Death was never heartless — just waiting for the right one to destroy her.
And maybe Kitt Azer was always doomed to be that boy.
📢 “You Hated Him—Now You’ll Hurt For Him.”
Because once the villain starts speaking…
You’ll wish he never stopped.
Even when it destroys you.
📣 Sound the alarms.
This is aching glances.
Soft touches that mean too much.
The kind of love that was never meant to survive.
The kind of love that might break the world.
Or save it.
Fearless gave us war.
Fearful is about what that war cost.
AND I AM NOT OKAY. 😭💔
🎯 If 2025 is the year of crying over fictional men with crowns and wounded hearts—then LET IT BE.
Bring the tissues. Bring the playlist. Let this novella wreck us beautifully. I AM READY TO CRY AGAIN!! This is giving 90% fate, 10% forbidden longing, and 100% going to leave me staring at the wall with my annotated tabs and destroyed will to function.“I don’t care what happens. I’m choosing delusion over devastation.”
GIVE.IT.TO.ME.RN!!! 💥 💳
October 14, 2025
I’d like a refund on the hours I wasted on this book, thanks!
September 4, 2025
What did I just read? This was very much un needed, waste of my time. Could’ve been an email.
September 8, 2025
1.5 stars ✨
Is this part of the same series that I loved and adored? Cause I refuse to believe it. This was absolutely boring and a chore to get through tbh. How did I go from loving the last one to not being able to stand this one?
1. It wasn't needed, not when it ended absolutely perfectly in Fearless. This was simply a waste of time. If Lauren Roberts wanted to write this, she should have waited a year or two to release this given how Kai and Pae's story ended flawlessly. This was too soon.
2. The way this one is written is absolutely bland. It reads like there are no emotions and in a way I get it from Death's perspective. But, my word, give me something to work with.
3. This sort of makes the Azer brother's last moments in Fearless, look meaningless. I see what Lauren tried to do at the end of this one, it's sort of leaving a door open to potentially more books and also not wanting to take a risk. Although, a calculative move... IT IS NOT NEEDED!!!
My dear beloved authors, when you finish a series, LET IT STAY FINISHED!!!!!
~•~•~
As someone who loves the Powerless series, I'm not sure if this novella was needed. But anyway, going in with zero expectations.
Is this part of the same series that I loved and adored? Cause I refuse to believe it. This was absolutely boring and a chore to get through tbh. How did I go from loving the last one to not being able to stand this one?
1. It wasn't needed, not when it ended absolutely perfectly in Fearless. This was simply a waste of time. If Lauren Roberts wanted to write this, she should have waited a year or two to release this given how Kai and Pae's story ended flawlessly. This was too soon.
2. The way this one is written is absolutely bland. It reads like there are no emotions and in a way I get it from Death's perspective. But, my word, give me something to work with.
3. This sort of makes the Azer brother's last moments in Fearless, look meaningless. I see what Lauren tried to do at the end of this one, it's sort of leaving a door open to potentially more books and also not wanting to take a risk. Although, a calculative move... IT IS NOT NEEDED!!!
My dear beloved authors, when you finish a series, LET IT STAY FINISHED!!!!!
~•~•~
As someone who loves the Powerless series, I'm not sure if this novella was needed. But anyway, going in with zero expectations.
Want to read
June 27, 2025This is about to be... Dry. As. Fuck
Want to read
September 5, 2025😎🤏🏼🙄🤏🏼
if she started milking this series, she may as well call the next book — milkless. atp she’s gonna start giving the plants novellas. 👹
if she started milking this series, she may as well call the next book — milkless. atp she’s gonna start giving the plants novellas. 👹
November 14, 2025
5 stars!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
(Spoilers! 🙈)
AWH KITTY 😭💔
I was shattered with his death from Fearless alone, I knew they were gonna twist the knife with this one 😪
But surprisingly I came out this book with more questions than answers 😩🫢😭
Mara (Death) was such an interesting character, this trope overall was INSANE and nothing like I’ve ever read before! For a while her and Kitt were pretty cute, the chemistry and tension was THERE, which I loooved.
~"𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙣." 𝙄 𝙨𝙝𝙧𝙪𝙜. 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙. "𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩."
𝘼 𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙖'𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙠. "𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩?"
"𝘼𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬, 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜," 𝙄 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧.
"𝙎𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙢𝙚. 𝙄𝙛 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪.”
This scene was the absolute cutest- I am in looove with Kitt 😭 I loved him and Mara, that was until they kinda switched up- which was unexpected?? 👀
"𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡?" 𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙨, 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨.
𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜. "𝙄 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙚."
𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙆𝙞𝙩𝙩'𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚. 𝙃𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙨 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙖'𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢. "𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙬?"
(⬆️this baking scene had me squealing omg 😭)
But besides that,
I’m so intrigued with Mara’s past and how she became death, which I’m pretty sure is what we’ll be getting next?? (THE ENDING??)
I WAS LITTERALLY SCREAMINGGG WDYM SHE HAD A “CONNECTION” WITH KIT? 😭😨
Oh I’m gonna eat that book UP.
I noticed in the book I hadn’t cried as much as I thought- that was until I listened to Kai’s bonus chapter on the audiobook 😃🔫
I was sobbing my eyes out 😭
(If you haven’t listened to it LISTEN & PREPARE TO CRY🎧🙏)
Though-
The most shocking thing was me coming out of this book being
OBSESSED WITH LENNY & BLAIR? 😭
"𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣, 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪," 𝙇𝙚𝙣𝙣𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙨.
"𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙄 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝙄 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩."
"𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧, 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙?" 𝙃𝙚 𝙨𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨. "𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜."
LENNY. THE YEARNING???! 🛐😩😭😭😭
"𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙄𝙣 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙚. 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧—-𝙗- 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡." 𝙃𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙡𝙮.
"𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩, 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙢𝙚."
THE WAY I RAN 🏃♀️
~Overall I’m in loooove with this whole series, I don’t think I will ever get over it 🙂↔️
I can’t wait what else Lauren has up her sleeve! 🤭
⭐️Rating: 5/5
📚Age Rating: 14+
🔥Spice: 0/5
🎧Songs:
~Who’s afraid of little old me?~Taylor Swift
~The Albatross~Taylor Swift
~The Prophecy~Taylor Swift
~Don’t Blame Me~Taylor Swift
~this is me trying~Taylor Swift
~I Hate It Here~Taylor Swift
~my tears ricochet~Taylor Swift
~exile~Taylor Swift, Bon Iver
~In The Stars~Benson Boone
~I Wanna Be Yours~Arctic Monkeys
~Say Yes To Heaven~Lana Del Rey
~I Told You Things~Gracie Abrams
~Let It Happen~Gracie Abrams
~We Hug Now~Sydney Ross
💜🗝️Pre-read:
Am I fearful of this book? Yes.
I know what I’m putting myself into going into this 😭💔💔 BUT AAAA CANT WAITTT
🩷🤍🗡️Prerelease:
YAY MORE TRAUMA 🎀🎀🤗
I HAVENT EVEN RECOVERED FROM FEARLESS WDYM THERES ANOTHER BOOK COMING OUT ABOUT MY BB KITT??😭😭😭💚💚
Im guessing that they’re going to make a love story for Kitt? So Lauren is really just twisting the knife😀💔
have a feeling I’m gonna sob BUT I CANT WAIT
(Spoilers! 🙈)
AWH KITTY 😭💔
I was shattered with his death from Fearless alone, I knew they were gonna twist the knife with this one 😪
But surprisingly I came out this book with more questions than answers 😩🫢😭
Mara (Death) was such an interesting character, this trope overall was INSANE and nothing like I’ve ever read before! For a while her and Kitt were pretty cute, the chemistry and tension was THERE, which I loooved.
~"𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙣." 𝙄 𝙨𝙝𝙧𝙪𝙜. 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙. "𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩."
𝘼 𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙖'𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙠. "𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩?"
"𝘼𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬, 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜," 𝙄 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧.
"𝙎𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙢𝙚. 𝙄𝙛 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪.”
This scene was the absolute cutest- I am in looove with Kitt 😭 I loved him and Mara, that was until they kinda switched up- which was unexpected?? 👀
"𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡?" 𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙨, 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨.
𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜. "𝙄 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙚."
𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙆𝙞𝙩𝙩'𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚. 𝙃𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙨 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙖'𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢. "𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙬?"
(⬆️this baking scene had me squealing omg 😭)
But besides that,
I’m so intrigued with Mara’s past and how she became death, which I’m pretty sure is what we’ll be getting next?? (THE ENDING??)
I WAS LITTERALLY SCREAMINGGG WDYM SHE HAD A “CONNECTION” WITH KIT? 😭😨
Oh I’m gonna eat that book UP.
I noticed in the book I hadn’t cried as much as I thought- that was until I listened to Kai’s bonus chapter on the audiobook 😃🔫
I was sobbing my eyes out 😭
(If you haven’t listened to it LISTEN & PREPARE TO CRY🎧🙏)
Though-
The most shocking thing was me coming out of this book being
OBSESSED WITH LENNY & BLAIR? 😭
"𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣, 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪," 𝙇𝙚𝙣𝙣𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙨.
"𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙄 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝙄 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩."
"𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧, 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙?" 𝙃𝙚 𝙨𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨. "𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜."
LENNY. THE YEARNING???! 🛐😩😭😭😭
"𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙄𝙣 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙚. 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧—-𝙗- 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡." 𝙃𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙡𝙮.
"𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩, 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙢𝙚."
THE WAY I RAN 🏃♀️
~Overall I’m in loooove with this whole series, I don’t think I will ever get over it 🙂↔️
I can’t wait what else Lauren has up her sleeve! 🤭
⭐️Rating: 5/5
📚Age Rating: 14+
🔥Spice: 0/5
🎧Songs:
~Who’s afraid of little old me?~Taylor Swift
~The Albatross~Taylor Swift
~The Prophecy~Taylor Swift
~Don’t Blame Me~Taylor Swift
~this is me trying~Taylor Swift
~I Hate It Here~Taylor Swift
~my tears ricochet~Taylor Swift
~exile~Taylor Swift, Bon Iver
~In The Stars~Benson Boone
~I Wanna Be Yours~Arctic Monkeys
~Say Yes To Heaven~Lana Del Rey
~I Told You Things~Gracie Abrams
~Let It Happen~Gracie Abrams
~We Hug Now~Sydney Ross
💜🗝️Pre-read:
Am I fearful of this book? Yes.
I know what I’m putting myself into going into this 😭💔💔 BUT AAAA CANT WAITTT
🩷🤍🗡️Prerelease:
YAY MORE TRAUMA 🎀🎀🤗
I HAVENT EVEN RECOVERED FROM FEARLESS WDYM THERES ANOTHER BOOK COMING OUT ABOUT MY BB KITT??😭😭😭💚💚
Im guessing that they’re going to make a love story for Kitt? So Lauren is really just twisting the knife😀💔
have a feeling I’m gonna sob BUT I CANT WAIT
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 6, 2025
i just spotted a typo in the title yall! let me fix it
the correct title is.... Fillerful . 200 pages of absolute nothing
a list of things i loved about the book
● the cover
list of things i hated
● this novella was supposed to give us insight into Kitt’s motivations and the true nature of the plague, but it was just a pointless look into lenny and BLAIR’s relationship
●just to be clear Blair should have died 2 books ago (lauren doesn’t know how to write villain arcs)
●why is death even a character? completely unnecessary and nonsensical
●MARA (a pointless character that spends the majority of the book stalking people)
●too many words and repetition (she has a way of dragging words around to make them feel epic)
●the disrespect to adena’s and maks character (LEAVE THEM ALONE bro💔 😭)
●i didn't care for Lenny and blairs middle school relationship
●the ending was so stupid and random, it completely ruined the emotional impact of the ending from Fearless.
● the bracket when mara was speaking was so annoying
●just when i thought i couldn’t hate kitt more i did (he spends the whole book whining )
●the epilogue was incredibly rushed. it felt confusing and incomplete. LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN KAI IS OLD ALREADY 😭 ?!
i adore some of the previous books in the series, but this book was simply not needed. it should have been summarized into 50 pages and added to Fearless as an extended epilogue or somthing, because the trilogy already ended so well already and this only added confusion.
the correct title is.... Fillerful . 200 pages of absolute nothing
a list of things i loved about the book
● the cover
list of things i hated
● this novella was supposed to give us insight into Kitt’s motivations and the true nature of the plague, but it was just a pointless look into lenny and BLAIR’s relationship
●just to be clear Blair should have died 2 books ago (lauren doesn’t know how to write villain arcs)
●why is death even a character? completely unnecessary and nonsensical
●MARA (a pointless character that spends the majority of the book stalking people)
●too many words and repetition (she has a way of dragging words around to make them feel epic)
●the disrespect to adena’s and maks character (LEAVE THEM ALONE bro💔 😭)
●i didn't care for Lenny and blairs middle school relationship
●the ending was so stupid and random, it completely ruined the emotional impact of the ending from Fearless.
● the bracket when mara was speaking was so annoying
●just when i thought i couldn’t hate kitt more i did (he spends the whole book whining )
●the epilogue was incredibly rushed. it felt confusing and incomplete. LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN KAI IS OLD ALREADY 😭 ?!
i adore some of the previous books in the series, but this book was simply not needed. it should have been summarized into 50 pages and added to Fearless as an extended epilogue or somthing, because the trilogy already ended so well already and this only added confusion.
September 13, 2025
── .✦ 𝑴𝒂𝒋𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑼𝒑 𝑨𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 🐈⬛⊹ . ݁˖
☘️◞˚੭ 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸. 🌸‧₊˚
﹒₊˚🕷️𓂃 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 🌿⸝⸝﹒₊˚
🩷︶︶ ꒦₊˚⤷ 𝘈 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴.
╭・⊹. 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚: 0 (𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙖 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙖𝙝𝙝 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙, 𝙖 𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙢𝙖𝙟𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙩.) 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜: 0 (𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛.) ˙ . ꒷ 🖤.˚꩜ .ᐟ
────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──────
╰ ₊˚.🍃 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀:
🗝️ˑ𓂃 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵
🗝️ˑ𓂃 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘦𝘥𝘰
🗝️ˑ𓂃 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧
🗝️ˑ𓂃 𝘒𝘪𝘵𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧
‧₊ ˚ ⊹ ࣭ ⭑ . ₊ ⊹ .₊๋ ‧₊ ˚ ⊹ ࣭ ⭑ . ₊ ⊹ .₊๋
🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ I'm going to first say that this review is not going to be how I usually do my book reviews because of how much I have to say. I Honestly do not know how to even start a review on this book because of HOW MUCH I HATE IT. I don't know if this book was legitimately a joke or not. Because if Lauren seriously wrote this book, sent it to the publisher, had them look over this ENTIRE THING, then get the cover, get the book printed into a million copies, and bam it's in the shelf at your local Walmart...WITHOUT EVEN TAKING A SECOND THOUGHT TO THINK? Now that... THAT IS CONCERNING. 😶 Because not only is this book a delusional, concerning, ILLEGAL mess. I also would rather go and watch two hours of cocomelon then go and endure this piece of garbage EVER again. I am someone who loved the first Powerless book despite all the hateful reviews. It was the first fantasy book I ever read and I will always think that the first book has a special place in my heart. I ALSO LOVED THE NOVELLA THAT CAME AFTER IT! Because I think at a certain point in time Lauren loved to write and that was clear in those two books alone. HOWEVER. You know what they say, all good things come to an end. And in this case the fame and fortune happened and here she has printed hardcover evidence of it. Because from Reckless (aka the second book) to Fearless (The horrifying third book.) to THIS?! Everything spiraled, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING. And as I am writing this review I am trying to process the fact that this book has a creepy foreshadowing in the dialogue that so many people could just ignore and think is normal. BUT LET ME JUST SAY THIS. Nothing and I mean NOTHING about this book should be normal. It was disturbing, weird, and let me say UNCOMFORTABLE as someone who is a teen and that read this disaster. And if you think I am being dramatic when I say this (Or are a die hard Lauren Roberts fan that tries to justify what she does) I have evidence to back up everything I say.
🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ Originally, this story was supposed to be about Mara (Who is death personified. Don't ask me why we needed this.) and her supposedly falling in love with Kitt. Because, OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WE JUST HAD TO HAVE ANOTHER FREAKING BOOK TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF. I am seriously starting to believe Lauren has too many bills to pay or is in debt because we did not even NEED this book to begin with. Anyways, getting back on track with the "plot" that was nonexistent, we were supposed to learn more about Mara as a character in this book and have sort of a forbidden love story. And you know what? I had some hope. I thought that maybe this was going to be a little side plot/story that gave Kitt a happy ending and leave us all satisfied. BUT OF COURSE, LAUREN IS PETTY AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. I think it actually was worse than I expected in so many ways.
🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ I'm going to first start off with something that isn't as bad and we will work our way up as we go. And that being the whole freaking LOVE STORY that this book was advertised as. Because 80% of this book was our character "Death" spying on other side characters aka Lenny and Blair's little relationship. And you know what I thought of that? I think Lauren was trying to recreate the entire Powerful novella again but in a different font. Because from their banter, to their relationship, EVERYTHING FELT REUSED. I was not even invested in it because this was NOT the love story this book was advertised as. Were Lenny and Blair a cute couple? Yes. Do I care if they were a cute couple? No. Because I did not buy this book and read it FOR. THEM. And when we have our main character that this story is about feeling more like a side character as the story goes on, that's where I have a problem. Also dare I say this book was just a repeat of Fearless but in a different POV?? HALF OF THIS BOOK IS REUSED MATERIEL!! BRO IS LAUREN JUST PRO RECYCLING??? It just goes even more downhill.
Now when Kitt and Mara interact... I have to say it was dry, lifeless, and rushed. Not only because I could not even picture them together with the lack of scenes they got, BUT BECAUSE KITT. WAS. FUCKING. IN. LOVE. WITH. HIS. BROTHER. 😃
Oh you think I'm joking right? You think this is some parody skit on Youtube...right? RIGHT???HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. no. Here I present to you the Oscar winning incest lines of Fearful.
🔫 ➜ "𝗜 𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗜 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿-𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗞𝗮𝗶."
🔫 ➜ "𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗲𝗱𝘆𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴.
𝗢𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗸𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲. 𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻."
🔫 ➜ "𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀, 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗮𝗺, 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱."
🔫 ➜ "𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁. 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿."
🔫 ➜ "𝗞𝗮𝗶 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝘁, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘂𝘀. 𝗔𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀."
🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ SO THERE YOU HAVE IT! KITT COMING OUT GUYS!!! #gay #brotherforbrother #incest
Not only do these hardly make ANY sense. (Someone hire an editor because with all the money Lauren makes she apparently can't get one.🤑) But I am sure you get the Idea. Kitt was BEYOND obsessed with his brother Kai in this book that it was unsettling and creepy the things he would say. I understand the matter of loving your sibling but if you read these, It seems much much more than that. It was STRANGE. WEIRD. AND CREEPY. And I did not like it nor will I tolerate this. But if you think that is all of it... oh hun you are in for a treat. Because not only is Kitt creepy. MARA FREAKING IS TOO.
🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ After Kitt brutally rejects Mara after she says they should be together and he could be the king and her the queen of death, he said they can't be together BECAUSE she's death. (When in reality he is just fucking obsessed with his brother.) He eventually still dies and becomes the king of death regardless which makes ZERO sense to me because we didn't even get any explanation as to why he became some emo overlord dead king. And on top of that his relationship with Mara just disappears as if there was nothing there to even begin with. NOW HERE IS WHERE IT GETS JUICY. Because in the book we have a time skip 5 years later where Mara (Death) visits the world again, (This story is hurting my brain.) She runs into Kai and Padeyn watching them from far...BUT THEY ARENT ALONE. They have a child now. Kit. As we learned in the Fearless book. So instead of Mara admiring from afar their happy ending. This is what we get. (This is a whole ass paragraph btw while the child is still a fucking minor.)
🔫 ➜ "𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝘁𝗶𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵.
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁.
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁. 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵, 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁. 𝗡𝗼, 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆.
𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱.
𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗻.
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻. 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀.
𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵. "
Oh and she has Kitt go to stalk the child in the next chapter. I think Lauren is totally sane guys. TOTALLY SANE. ITS TOTALLY NORMAL TO HAVE DEATH WHO IS A GROWN ASS WOMAN AND PROBABLY A MILLION YEARS OLD FANTASIZE ABOUT A CHILD. RIGHT GUYS??
Someone kill me. Oh wait. This book already did.
Burn. this. in. hell. 🙏😃
Ilya ❌ Alabama ✅
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🗝️🌿 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: ALL THE HATE REVIEWS ON THIS ARE SENDING MEEE. I think it’s time we see what trauma Kitt is getting into today 🙂↕️😛
🎀 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞: GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS WHAT THE HECK??? LAUREN HAVE YOU FINALLY DECIDED TO TAKE THE PATH OF ORIGINALITY??? 🥺 THE COVER IS SO PRETTY OML IM SCREAMING 😱😱😱
Why is it Kitts pov tho 😒 I don’t wanna read abt him when he’s psycho ALSO MARA IS DEATH PERSONIFIED HELLO?? Listen as much as I wanted more Mak lore that sounds interesting as HECKKK 😨
☘️◞˚੭ 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸. 🌸‧₊˚
﹒₊˚🕷️𓂃 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 🌿⸝⸝﹒₊˚
🩷︶︶ ꒦₊˚⤷ 𝘈 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴.
╭・⊹. 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚: 0 (𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙖 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙖𝙝𝙝 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙, 𝙖 𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙢𝙖𝙟𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙩.) 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜: 0 (𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛.) ˙ . ꒷ 🖤.˚꩜ .ᐟ
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╰ ₊˚.🍃 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀:
🗝️ˑ𓂃 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵
🗝️ˑ𓂃 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘦𝘥𝘰
🗝️ˑ𓂃 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧
🗝️ˑ𓂃 𝘒𝘪𝘵𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧
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🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ I'm going to first say that this review is not going to be how I usually do my book reviews because of how much I have to say. I Honestly do not know how to even start a review on this book because of HOW MUCH I HATE IT. I don't know if this book was legitimately a joke or not. Because if Lauren seriously wrote this book, sent it to the publisher, had them look over this ENTIRE THING, then get the cover, get the book printed into a million copies, and bam it's in the shelf at your local Walmart...WITHOUT EVEN TAKING A SECOND THOUGHT TO THINK? Now that... THAT IS CONCERNING. 😶 Because not only is this book a delusional, concerning, ILLEGAL mess. I also would rather go and watch two hours of cocomelon then go and endure this piece of garbage EVER again. I am someone who loved the first Powerless book despite all the hateful reviews. It was the first fantasy book I ever read and I will always think that the first book has a special place in my heart. I ALSO LOVED THE NOVELLA THAT CAME AFTER IT! Because I think at a certain point in time Lauren loved to write and that was clear in those two books alone. HOWEVER. You know what they say, all good things come to an end. And in this case the fame and fortune happened and here she has printed hardcover evidence of it. Because from Reckless (aka the second book) to Fearless (The horrifying third book.) to THIS?! Everything spiraled, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING. And as I am writing this review I am trying to process the fact that this book has a creepy foreshadowing in the dialogue that so many people could just ignore and think is normal. BUT LET ME JUST SAY THIS. Nothing and I mean NOTHING about this book should be normal. It was disturbing, weird, and let me say UNCOMFORTABLE as someone who is a teen and that read this disaster. And if you think I am being dramatic when I say this (Or are a die hard Lauren Roberts fan that tries to justify what she does) I have evidence to back up everything I say.
🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ Originally, this story was supposed to be about Mara (Who is death personified. Don't ask me why we needed this.) and her supposedly falling in love with Kitt. Because, OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WE JUST HAD TO HAVE ANOTHER FREAKING BOOK TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF. I am seriously starting to believe Lauren has too many bills to pay or is in debt because we did not even NEED this book to begin with. Anyways, getting back on track with the "plot" that was nonexistent, we were supposed to learn more about Mara as a character in this book and have sort of a forbidden love story. And you know what? I had some hope. I thought that maybe this was going to be a little side plot/story that gave Kitt a happy ending and leave us all satisfied. BUT OF COURSE, LAUREN IS PETTY AND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. I think it actually was worse than I expected in so many ways.
🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ I'm going to first start off with something that isn't as bad and we will work our way up as we go. And that being the whole freaking LOVE STORY that this book was advertised as. Because 80% of this book was our character "Death" spying on other side characters aka Lenny and Blair's little relationship. And you know what I thought of that? I think Lauren was trying to recreate the entire Powerful novella again but in a different font. Because from their banter, to their relationship, EVERYTHING FELT REUSED. I was not even invested in it because this was NOT the love story this book was advertised as. Were Lenny and Blair a cute couple? Yes. Do I care if they were a cute couple? No. Because I did not buy this book and read it FOR. THEM. And when we have our main character that this story is about feeling more like a side character as the story goes on, that's where I have a problem. Also dare I say this book was just a repeat of Fearless but in a different POV?? HALF OF THIS BOOK IS REUSED MATERIEL!! BRO IS LAUREN JUST PRO RECYCLING??? It just goes even more downhill.
Now when Kitt and Mara interact... I have to say it was dry, lifeless, and rushed. Not only because I could not even picture them together with the lack of scenes they got, BUT BECAUSE KITT. WAS. FUCKING. IN. LOVE. WITH. HIS. BROTHER. 😃
Oh you think I'm joking right? You think this is some parody skit on Youtube...right? RIGHT???HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. no. Here I present to you the Oscar winning incest lines of Fearful.
🔫 ➜ "𝗜 𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗜 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿-𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗞𝗮𝗶."
🔫 ➜ "𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗲𝗱𝘆𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴.
𝗢𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗸𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲. 𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻."
🔫 ➜ "𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀, 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗮𝗺, 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱."
🔫 ➜ "𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁. 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿."
🔫 ➜ "𝗞𝗮𝗶 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝘁, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘂𝘀. 𝗔𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀."
🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ SO THERE YOU HAVE IT! KITT COMING OUT GUYS!!! #gay #brotherforbrother #incest
Not only do these hardly make ANY sense. (Someone hire an editor because with all the money Lauren makes she apparently can't get one.🤑) But I am sure you get the Idea. Kitt was BEYOND obsessed with his brother Kai in this book that it was unsettling and creepy the things he would say. I understand the matter of loving your sibling but if you read these, It seems much much more than that. It was STRANGE. WEIRD. AND CREEPY. And I did not like it nor will I tolerate this. But if you think that is all of it... oh hun you are in for a treat. Because not only is Kitt creepy. MARA FREAKING IS TOO.
🎀୭˚. ᵎᵎ After Kitt brutally rejects Mara after she says they should be together and he could be the king and her the queen of death, he said they can't be together BECAUSE she's death. (When in reality he is just fucking obsessed with his brother.) He eventually still dies and becomes the king of death regardless which makes ZERO sense to me because we didn't even get any explanation as to why he became some emo overlord dead king. And on top of that his relationship with Mara just disappears as if there was nothing there to even begin with. NOW HERE IS WHERE IT GETS JUICY. Because in the book we have a time skip 5 years later where Mara (Death) visits the world again, (This story is hurting my brain.) She runs into Kai and Padeyn watching them from far...BUT THEY ARENT ALONE. They have a child now. Kit. As we learned in the Fearless book. So instead of Mara admiring from afar their happy ending. This is what we get. (This is a whole ass paragraph btw while the child is still a fucking minor.)
🔫 ➜ "𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝘁𝗶𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵.
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁.
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁. 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵, 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁. 𝗡𝗼, 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆.
𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱.
𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗻.
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻. 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀.
𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵. "
Oh and she has Kitt go to stalk the child in the next chapter. I think Lauren is totally sane guys. TOTALLY SANE. ITS TOTALLY NORMAL TO HAVE DEATH WHO IS A GROWN ASS WOMAN AND PROBABLY A MILLION YEARS OLD FANTASIZE ABOUT A CHILD. RIGHT GUYS??
Someone kill me. Oh wait. This book already did.
Burn. this. in. hell. 🙏😃
Ilya ❌ Alabama ✅
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🗝️🌿 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: ALL THE HATE REVIEWS ON THIS ARE SENDING MEEE. I think it’s time we see what trauma Kitt is getting into today 🙂↕️😛
🎀 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞: GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS WHAT THE HECK??? LAUREN HAVE YOU FINALLY DECIDED TO TAKE THE PATH OF ORIGINALITY??? 🥺 THE COVER IS SO PRETTY OML IM SCREAMING 😱😱😱
Why is it Kitts pov tho 😒 I don’t wanna read abt him when he’s psycho ALSO MARA IS DEATH PERSONIFIED HELLO?? Listen as much as I wanted more Mak lore that sounds interesting as HECKKK 😨
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October 8, 2025
pre-read
finally got my hands on a copy, yall better be ready
pre-release
so ready to hate read this
finally got my hands on a copy, yall better be ready
pre-release
so ready to hate read this
September 3, 2025
જ⁀➴ 𝟐.𝟕𝟓₊˚⊹ 🗝️ 𝟘𝟡/𝟘𝟚/𝟚𝟝—𝟘𝟡/𝟘𝟛/𝟚𝟝
okay wait…i’m so confused…😭 what just happened.
okay—so i didn’t HATE this, but i had high hopes for this book and it’s just so…what?! it’s so hard to even describe this book because it felt so much like filler.?
i was so excited to read this book because the idea of the afterlife seems so interesting because 1. it’s just such a cool concept that can be developed on and 2. we can see ADENA AND MAK!! sadly none of these happened because there was no adena&mak and the world was not developed on.
i actually think it’s CRUEL to give us such a cool character (Death) and not do anything with her!! why were ALL of her chapters either about kitt (which were like 3) and then the other 80% her spying on blair and lenny. why, just why? why even introduce a character like her and not do anything with it?!
and to go into kitt…i really came into this expecting to change my ENTIRE mindset on kitt and feel for him…but i might have just learned to dislike him EVEN more! all we learned from him was that he was depressive and that’s it. no new information, nothing. and somehow the ending was just even more boring!!
overall, its not a TERRIBLE book! the idea is actually quite beautiful and has alot of potential. my main issue was that i didn’t feel connected or care about the characters (kai and paedyn weren’t in this book if anyone was wondering) but if you LOVE kitt, or lenny&blair than you might love it!! definitely not necessary though.
╰┈➤ tropes to expect!
🗝️after-life setting
🪦misunderstood, broken mmc
🗝️fmc is the spirit of death
🪦forbidden love
🗝️unanswered questions
🪦”i’ll remind you how to live if you teach me how to die.”
𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝟒.𝟎𝟎
𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕: 𝟐.𝟕𝟓 🗝🏰
₊˚⊹ ᰔ 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝:
AHHHH ITS HERE!! coming into this experience as someone who has MIXED feelings about kitt so i’m not sure how i’m going to feel 😭!! but the reviews i’ve seen have been raving about it so i’m excited!!
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update: TOMORROW!! ITS TOMORROW!! also Lauren has blessed us with a KAI CHAPTER!!
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a novella about kitt?! this is gonna kill me 😭
already shipping death and kitt🥺🥺
NOTE: I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS BUT SINCE THIS IS BASED IN THE AFTERLIFE—WILL WE SEE ADENA AND MAK🤭?!?!
(im delusional)
okay wait…i’m so confused…😭 what just happened.
okay—so i didn’t HATE this, but i had high hopes for this book and it’s just so…what?! it’s so hard to even describe this book because it felt so much like filler.?
i was so excited to read this book because the idea of the afterlife seems so interesting because 1. it’s just such a cool concept that can be developed on and 2. we can see ADENA AND MAK!! sadly none of these happened because there was no adena&mak and the world was not developed on.
i actually think it’s CRUEL to give us such a cool character (Death) and not do anything with her!! why were ALL of her chapters either about kitt (which were like 3) and then the other 80% her spying on blair and lenny. why, just why? why even introduce a character like her and not do anything with it?!
and to go into kitt…i really came into this expecting to change my ENTIRE mindset on kitt and feel for him…but i might have just learned to dislike him EVEN more! all we learned from him was that he was depressive and that’s it. no new information, nothing. and somehow the ending was just even more boring!!
overall, its not a TERRIBLE book! the idea is actually quite beautiful and has alot of potential. my main issue was that i didn’t feel connected or care about the characters (kai and paedyn weren’t in this book if anyone was wondering) but if you LOVE kitt, or lenny&blair than you might love it!! definitely not necessary though.
╰┈➤ tropes to expect!
🗝️after-life setting
🪦misunderstood, broken mmc
🗝️fmc is the spirit of death
🪦forbidden love
🗝️unanswered questions
🪦”i’ll remind you how to live if you teach me how to die.”
𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝟒.𝟎𝟎
𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕: 𝟐.𝟕𝟓 🗝🏰
₊˚⊹ ᰔ 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝:
AHHHH ITS HERE!! coming into this experience as someone who has MIXED feelings about kitt so i’m not sure how i’m going to feel 😭!! but the reviews i’ve seen have been raving about it so i’m excited!!
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update: TOMORROW!! ITS TOMORROW!! also Lauren has blessed us with a KAI CHAPTER!!
————————————————————————————————
a novella about kitt?! this is gonna kill me 😭
already shipping death and kitt🥺🥺
NOTE: I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS BUT SINCE THIS IS BASED IN THE AFTERLIFE—WILL WE SEE ADENA AND MAK🤭?!?!
(im delusional)
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August 16, 2025there is something called happiness lauren, pretty sure you’ve never heard of it.
September 23, 2025
3 stars ⭐
⤷ mini spoiler-free review!! ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪
🚨 PLEASE SKIP THIS REVIEW IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THIS SERIES 🚨
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ my thoughts
unpopular opinion but i actually enjoyed this novella! while i do think it wasn’t entirely necessary and the beginning didn’t grab me right away, i appreciated experiencing the events of Fearless from kitt’s pov. i’ve never hated him and have always understood him—his ideology and how his upbringing shaped him—which is probably one of the reasons why this novella worked for me. that said, i still can’t get over his obsession with kai. it’s borderline incestuous, and i also have absolutely no idea why he thought consuming a dose of the plague was a good idea 💀😭
“To living with you, Mara.”
“To accompanying you in death, Kitt.”
things were going well for the most part and i was genuinely invested, but then the ending took such a sudden turn and i was left upset. it explained what happened at the end of Fearless, but like why??? 🤦🏻♀️
“I’ll be here.”
“I’ll know.”
“By the beat of my heart?”
“I’ll follow the sound of it home.”
unexpectedly, this novella also focused on two other characters (who i won’t name to avoid spoilers) and i ended up loving them so much. their constant bickering slowly gave way to a growing affection for each other which was honestly so cute and heartwarming 🥹
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ overall
this novella wasn’t nearly as bad as i expected! that said, it’s clear Lauren Roberts is milking this series, and given the way this ended, i have a feeling we might not be done yet—perhaps more books or even a spinoff series? 😭
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ the powerless trilogy
♡.ᐟ powerless 🗡️ (♾️ ⭐)
♡.ᐟ powerful 🌌 (5 ⭐)
♡.ᐟ reckless 🌹🌿 (3.75 ⭐)
♡.ᐟ fearless 👑🩸 (3.5 ⭐)
♡.ᐟ fearful 🗝️ (3 ⭐)
────────── ⋆⋅end⋅⋆ ──────────
pre-read 🗝️
haven’t heard the best things about this one so far but i’m still gonna read it 🤷🏻♀️
⤷ mini spoiler-free review!! ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪
🚨 PLEASE SKIP THIS REVIEW IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THIS SERIES 🚨
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ my thoughts
unpopular opinion but i actually enjoyed this novella! while i do think it wasn’t entirely necessary and the beginning didn’t grab me right away, i appreciated experiencing the events of Fearless from kitt’s pov. i’ve never hated him and have always understood him—his ideology and how his upbringing shaped him—which is probably one of the reasons why this novella worked for me. that said, i still can’t get over his obsession with kai. it’s borderline incestuous, and i also have absolutely no idea why he thought consuming a dose of the plague was a good idea 💀😭
“To living with you, Mara.”
“To accompanying you in death, Kitt.”
things were going well for the most part and i was genuinely invested, but then the ending took such a sudden turn and i was left upset. it explained what happened at the end of Fearless, but like why??? 🤦🏻♀️
“I’ll be here.”
“I’ll know.”
“By the beat of my heart?”
“I’ll follow the sound of it home.”
unexpectedly, this novella also focused on two other characters (who i won’t name to avoid spoilers) and i ended up loving them so much. their constant bickering slowly gave way to a growing affection for each other which was honestly so cute and heartwarming 🥹
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ overall
this novella wasn’t nearly as bad as i expected! that said, it’s clear Lauren Roberts is milking this series, and given the way this ended, i have a feeling we might not be done yet—perhaps more books or even a spinoff series? 😭
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ the powerless trilogy
♡.ᐟ powerless 🗡️ (♾️ ⭐)
♡.ᐟ powerful 🌌 (5 ⭐)
♡.ᐟ reckless 🌹🌿 (3.75 ⭐)
♡.ᐟ fearless 👑🩸 (3.5 ⭐)
♡.ᐟ fearful 🗝️ (3 ⭐)
────────── ⋆⋅end⋅⋆ ──────────
pre-read 🗝️
haven’t heard the best things about this one so far but i’m still gonna read it 🤷🏻♀️
September 7, 2025
જ⁀➴ 1 star
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No. Just no. I don't even have the words to even write a formal, long-form review on this, like I usually do with every other book I read. The only thing I can really say is that this was a complete waste of 2 hours of my life. Like, I stopped reading my other ARCs to pick this up since I thought this would answer some of my other questions I had lingering from Fearless, but I was left more confused finishing it vs. when I started it.
Like, I legitimately did not understand why this needed to be a novella in the first place because literally nothing was happening the entire time. Maybe it's my own fault for having different expectations going into reading this, but I don't understand why the novella focused more on the other side characters of the series (not going to mention names to avoid spoilers) when I figured this would be more about Kitt and understanding things from his point of view. For a novella that was supposed to be about Kitt, I'm pretty sure like, less than half of the novella (28 chapters plus an epilogue) was from his POV.
(Also, there were typos all over the book??? For example, there was one part of the story where Mara's called Mira and I thought it was someone totally different but it was just a typo...how no one caught this is beyond me.)
If you're on the fence of reading this...this is your sign to spare a couple hours of your life and use it to read something else. There's much better books you could be reading now.
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⋆˙⟡ 𝒫𝓇𝑒-𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹 (9/4/2025): Happy belated publishing day to Fearful! My copy came in the mail today so I figured this would be a good way to start September, considering it's a novella and I haven't finished a book this month yet! I'm hoping this gives us more context over the events that happened in Fearless and gives the series some nice closure.
⋆˙⟡ 𝒫𝓇𝑒-𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹 (6/11/2025): September 2nd cannot come fast enough. This will definitely be an interesting read and I hope it ties up some loose ends that were left behind in Fearless!
Update: just preordered the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition👀🤭 You can see the alternate cover and preorder it here!
“She is not heartless, Death. Not quite. The broken organ just no longer beats.”
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No. Just no. I don't even have the words to even write a formal, long-form review on this, like I usually do with every other book I read. The only thing I can really say is that this was a complete waste of 2 hours of my life. Like, I stopped reading my other ARCs to pick this up since I thought this would answer some of my other questions I had lingering from Fearless, but I was left more confused finishing it vs. when I started it.
Like, I legitimately did not understand why this needed to be a novella in the first place because literally nothing was happening the entire time. Maybe it's my own fault for having different expectations going into reading this, but I don't understand why the novella focused more on the other side characters of the series (not going to mention names to avoid spoilers) when I figured this would be more about Kitt and understanding things from his point of view. For a novella that was supposed to be about Kitt, I'm pretty sure like, less than half of the novella (28 chapters plus an epilogue) was from his POV.
(Also, there were typos all over the book??? For example, there was one part of the story where Mara's called Mira and I thought it was someone totally different but it was just a typo...how no one caught this is beyond me.)
If you're on the fence of reading this...this is your sign to spare a couple hours of your life and use it to read something else. There's much better books you could be reading now.
. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁. . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁. . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁. . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁. . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁. . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.
⋆˙⟡ 𝒫𝓇𝑒-𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹 (9/4/2025): Happy belated publishing day to Fearful! My copy came in the mail today so I figured this would be a good way to start September, considering it's a novella and I haven't finished a book this month yet! I'm hoping this gives us more context over the events that happened in Fearless and gives the series some nice closure.
⋆˙⟡ 𝒫𝓇𝑒-𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹 (6/11/2025): September 2nd cannot come fast enough. This will definitely be an interesting read and I hope it ties up some loose ends that were left behind in Fearless!
Update: just preordered the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition👀🤭 You can see the alternate cover and preorder it here!
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November 6, 2025𐙚⋆˚✿˖° SO READY TO HATE THIS 😝
I adored Powerless and Powerful, felt kinda meh about Reckless, and was honestly so disappointed by Fearless. So now… here we are with Fearful. I wasn’t expecting much, but I thought maybe—just maybe—I’d get some closure.
But after reading the reviews? Apparently not. Most people I know gave it 1 or 2 stars. Still, I’m going in… just to see for myself. Gotta be an informed hater, right?
──★ ˙🧷 ̟ !!
I adored Powerless and Powerful, felt kinda meh about Reckless, and was honestly so disappointed by Fearless. So now… here we are with Fearful. I wasn’t expecting much, but I thought maybe—just maybe—I’d get some closure.
But after reading the reviews? Apparently not. Most people I know gave it 1 or 2 stars. Still, I’m going in… just to see for myself. Gotta be an informed hater, right?
──★ ˙🧷 ̟ !!
August 25, 2025
What…why…oh my god.
This book is far from what I expected—in every single aspect. And it might just be my favorite in the series because of the sheer depth in it. This story was made for our morally grey, underrated characters.
Instead of a full-force romantasy like the rest of the trilogy, this book felt like a borderline existential crisis. It tackled insanely powerful themes—life, death, fate, hope, souls, humanity—in a way I wish we had more time to explore (who knows, maybe a spinoff?).
Death, Mara, was one of the most fascinating characters I’ve read in a long time. The personification of Death was done so uniquely, I was left in total awe. She is ruthless, she is brutal and blunt, she is an absolute DIVA. Between her job, her past, her perspective on living and dying, I kept forgetting if I was reading a character or staring at some cosmic truth. Mara might be one of my favorite characters in the Powerless trilogy despite being there for a short novella (though if you look back, she was indeed there the entire time).
Now the man of the hour: Kitt Azer. Every page he appeared on had me ready to bawl my eyes out. This story finally gave us an insight on where his head was at during Fearless and I am not sure whether to be happy, sad, or bash my head into a wall because I can't hold his hand. The humanity that was brought to Kitt was astonishing. This is how complexity is written.
Fearful left me FED. We got a beautiful love story that had me kicking and giggling and falling in love with a couple I never thought I would care about. We got Kitt finally showing off that signature Azer sweet tongue. I was crying happy tears for almost that entire book (which was so damn REFRESHING).
SO WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN THAT LAST 15%? CARE TO EXPLAIN PERHAPS?
I went from smiling → jaw dropped screaming → full-on bawling in a corner while rocking back and forth trying to understand what I just read. I am so angry. I think I stared at a wall for 10 minutes with tears streaming down my face from the utter shock.
Did I get closure? Was this a trap? Kitt?? Mara??? I don’t think I’ve processed it.
Do not even ask me about the epilogue. Lauren Roberts and her damn Kitt epilogues just trying to strip away any sense of sanity I have left. Thank the plagues I love pain because it was so damn phenomenal.
I feel like recommending this book is a crime because of the impact it left on me, which is exactly why you HAVE to read it. Kitt defenders, I am praying for you. Morally Grey has never looked so human.
This is my formal and heartbroken goodbye to the Powerless trilogy.
My Fearful reading vlog is up on YouTube (@natillavani) on release day! 🌸😍
This book is far from what I expected—in every single aspect. And it might just be my favorite in the series because of the sheer depth in it. This story was made for our morally grey, underrated characters.
Instead of a full-force romantasy like the rest of the trilogy, this book felt like a borderline existential crisis. It tackled insanely powerful themes—life, death, fate, hope, souls, humanity—in a way I wish we had more time to explore (who knows, maybe a spinoff?).
Death, Mara, was one of the most fascinating characters I’ve read in a long time. The personification of Death was done so uniquely, I was left in total awe. She is ruthless, she is brutal and blunt, she is an absolute DIVA. Between her job, her past, her perspective on living and dying, I kept forgetting if I was reading a character or staring at some cosmic truth. Mara might be one of my favorite characters in the Powerless trilogy despite being there for a short novella (though if you look back, she was indeed there the entire time).
Now the man of the hour: Kitt Azer. Every page he appeared on had me ready to bawl my eyes out. This story finally gave us an insight on where his head was at during Fearless and I am not sure whether to be happy, sad, or bash my head into a wall because I can't hold his hand. The humanity that was brought to Kitt was astonishing. This is how complexity is written.
Fearful left me FED. We got a beautiful love story that had me kicking and giggling and falling in love with a couple I never thought I would care about. We got Kitt finally showing off that signature Azer sweet tongue. I was crying happy tears for almost that entire book (which was so damn REFRESHING).
SO WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN THAT LAST 15%? CARE TO EXPLAIN PERHAPS?
I went from smiling → jaw dropped screaming → full-on bawling in a corner while rocking back and forth trying to understand what I just read. I am so angry. I think I stared at a wall for 10 minutes with tears streaming down my face from the utter shock.
Did I get closure? Was this a trap? Kitt?? Mara??? I don’t think I’ve processed it.
Do not even ask me about the epilogue. Lauren Roberts and her damn Kitt epilogues just trying to strip away any sense of sanity I have left. Thank the plagues I love pain because it was so damn phenomenal.
I feel like recommending this book is a crime because of the impact it left on me, which is exactly why you HAVE to read it. Kitt defenders, I am praying for you. Morally Grey has never looked so human.
This is my formal and heartbroken goodbye to the Powerless trilogy.
My Fearful reading vlog is up on YouTube (@natillavani) on release day! 🌸😍
September 20, 2025
The only book I’ve given 2 stars to. No thanks.
September 6, 2025
someone take away her computer pls
September 21, 2025
ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ✦ . ⁺ . 1.7 ☆ . ⁺ . ✦
ㅤ ㅤ ˋ°•*⁀➷ㅤmight contain spoilers ❗
ㅤ ㅤ✦ So, I was already one of those people who couldn’t stand Kitt. Not pure hatred, but enough irritation that by the end of the second book, I was entirely done with him; and by the end of Fearless? Completely unredeemable in my eyes. So naturally, I went into this novella thinking this will be the book that changes my mind, and I’ll finally understand him better, see things from his perspective, and actually grasp the reasoning behind his actions. Well, NONE of that happened.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ This novella was basically another blow to his character for me. If anything, it just cemented my dislike. Never in my life have I felt more like a book could have been an email. Truly, this could have easily been trimmed into a handful of POV chapters and spread throughout the last book. There was absolutely no reason for it to exist as a separate novella; it does not make you like Kitt, it does not make you understand him or his decisions...it does literally NOTHING.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ And then we have Mara. Don’t even get me started. Why on earth would you introduce a brand new character in a novella and then not even give her a serious role or purpose? Instead, she’s dragged in just to fuel a ridiculous, last-minute plot twist that felt completely pointless and, honestly, insulting. I was already done with Kitt, but this made me start an entirely new hate train towards Mara as well.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ The only saving grace? Lenny and Blair. I genuinely enjoyed their chapters. They were sweet, they added a touch of warmth, and they finally clarified some of the confusion I had about them in Fearless. If not for them, this would have been a solid 0.7-star read (if possible). Instead, it received one for Lenny and Blair and 0.7 because the prose was occasionally pretty, and there were a few quotes I actually liked. That’s it.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ Now, the epilogue. I hated it. Absolutely hated it!!!! After the ending of Fearless, you get the impression that Paedyn and Kai have finally earned some peace and happiness. But then this novella throws in a nonsense epilogue that makes it sound like Kai is doomed to eternal suffering because of Kitt. Why? Why would you do that? It doesn’t add depth, and it doesn’t add tragedy; it just taints their happy ending. And don’t even get me started on that last letter. Confusing, unnecessary, and the final nail in the coffin of my patience.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ Oh, and the brackets. What the hell is with all the brackets??? WHY?????
ㅤ ㅤ✦ To top it off, I honestly could not follow what was going on half the time. Maybe my attention span took a hit with this one, but I swear I could not make sense of it. By the end, I didn’t care anymore. And don’t ask me to reread that section with Mara, Kai's daughter, and Kitt (?) because I won’t. I still have no idea what that was supposed to mean. If any kind soul out there has the patience to untangle it, please, enlighten me, because I’m not going back.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ To sum it up nicely? This could have stayed in the drafts; or it could have been reduced to a very few chapters that could have been integrated in Fearless.
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ㅤ ᯓ ✿ pre-reading ⪼ ㅤ started ┆10-September-2025┆
ㅤ ㅤ ⤿ i have nothing to say about this; I just want to read it, so here I go...
ㅤ ㅤ ˋ°•*⁀➷ㅤmight contain spoilers ❗
ㅤ ㅤ✦ So, I was already one of those people who couldn’t stand Kitt. Not pure hatred, but enough irritation that by the end of the second book, I was entirely done with him; and by the end of Fearless? Completely unredeemable in my eyes. So naturally, I went into this novella thinking this will be the book that changes my mind, and I’ll finally understand him better, see things from his perspective, and actually grasp the reasoning behind his actions. Well, NONE of that happened.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ This novella was basically another blow to his character for me. If anything, it just cemented my dislike. Never in my life have I felt more like a book could have been an email. Truly, this could have easily been trimmed into a handful of POV chapters and spread throughout the last book. There was absolutely no reason for it to exist as a separate novella; it does not make you like Kitt, it does not make you understand him or his decisions...it does literally NOTHING.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ And then we have Mara. Don’t even get me started. Why on earth would you introduce a brand new character in a novella and then not even give her a serious role or purpose? Instead, she’s dragged in just to fuel a ridiculous, last-minute plot twist that felt completely pointless and, honestly, insulting. I was already done with Kitt, but this made me start an entirely new hate train towards Mara as well.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ The only saving grace? Lenny and Blair. I genuinely enjoyed their chapters. They were sweet, they added a touch of warmth, and they finally clarified some of the confusion I had about them in Fearless. If not for them, this would have been a solid 0.7-star read (if possible). Instead, it received one for Lenny and Blair and 0.7 because the prose was occasionally pretty, and there were a few quotes I actually liked. That’s it.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ Now, the epilogue. I hated it. Absolutely hated it!!!! After the ending of Fearless, you get the impression that Paedyn and Kai have finally earned some peace and happiness. But then this novella throws in a nonsense epilogue that makes it sound like Kai is doomed to eternal suffering because of Kitt. Why? Why would you do that? It doesn’t add depth, and it doesn’t add tragedy; it just taints their happy ending. And don’t even get me started on that last letter. Confusing, unnecessary, and the final nail in the coffin of my patience.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ Oh, and the brackets. What the hell is with all the brackets??? WHY?????
ㅤ ㅤ✦ To top it off, I honestly could not follow what was going on half the time. Maybe my attention span took a hit with this one, but I swear I could not make sense of it. By the end, I didn’t care anymore. And don’t ask me to reread that section with Mara, Kai's daughter, and Kitt (?) because I won’t. I still have no idea what that was supposed to mean. If any kind soul out there has the patience to untangle it, please, enlighten me, because I’m not going back.
ㅤ ㅤ✦ To sum it up nicely? This could have stayed in the drafts; or it could have been reduced to a very few chapters that could have been integrated in Fearless.
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ㅤ ᯓ ✿ pre-reading ⪼ ㅤ started ┆10-September-2025┆
ㅤ ㅤ ⤿ i have nothing to say about this; I just want to read it, so here I go...
October 10, 2025
Oh Lauren... WHY? Apart from the insights into what Kit was feeling & why he did what he did, I don't really see the point of this book. I actually believe this could have been incorporated into Fearless, perhaps in the last few chapters as flashback.. or something.
September 10, 2025
NO. NAHHH. NOPE.
When Death Falls in Love and We Fall Apart
Mara-grim reaper existential goth girlfriend T_T
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NO, I'M ACTUALLY READING THIS!
When Death Falls in Love and We Fall Apart
Mara-
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NO, I'M ACTUALLY READING THIS!
September 13, 2025
ᯓ✶.ᐟ
‘Death answers to no man.’
⤿ rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2.5)
⤿ age rating: 13+
⤿ spice: 0/5
⤿ genres: ya, fantasy, romance
⤿ content warnings:
⋆ death & grief
⋆ violence
⋆ minor language
spoiler-free review!
༊*·༄`✦ִֶ 𓂃⊹
★₊˚ෆ ⋆┆ playlist:
➵ i told you things, gracie abrams
➵ me and my husband, mitski
➵ nobody, mitski
➵ the fruits, paris paloma
➵ this is me trying, taylor swift
★₊˚ෆ ⋆┆ tropes:
➵ badass fmc
➵ banter
➵ dual pov
➵ everyone’s traumatised™
➵ mortal x immortal
➵ reverse grumpy x sunshine
➵ support women’s wrongs™
➵ the MCs are touch starved™
ִ ࣪𖤐°⋆⸜ 𓏲 ∿ plot:
as someone who has been following the author since before the release of Powerless, i truly don’t know what to say about this. i was so excited for this to come out so we could delve deeper into kitt’s character and be introduced to a new and interesting fmc. as far as i was aware, this was supposed to be a romance between kitt and death, but i feel like i was misled. most of the romance plot was focused on other characters—in fact, i’d say that 60% of the book was dedicated to everyone but that ‘main’ romance.
i can’t tell if i’m underwhelmed because i expected more from this, or because it was actually underwhelming. i think i may have set myself up for failure slightly, because i adored Powerful and assumed that this would be of a similar vein. there were so many unanswered questions, and many things that i cannot see the significance of. i feel like this is more of a filler than an actual novella.
i’ll take a break from complaining for a minute and say that i certainly didn’t hate it. i was invested in the main four, and i actually really liked mara for the majority of the book. however, after finishing it, i’ve now come to the conclusion that i respect mara, i understand kitt, but i don’t love either of them. lenny and blair, however? *tee-hee.*
ִ ࣪𖤐°⋆⸜ 𓏲 ∿ world-building:
i was really looking forward to a novella set in the afterlife, but, once again, i think i was misled. i think many locations were underdeveloped and i was unable to truly understand what was going on half the time. unfortunately, this was just a very confusing book.
┆ ⤿ ✉️ ⌗ edit:
⤿ the letters. what the actual fuck. no no no no no, someone help me. (found in the audiobook)
★₊˚ෆ ⋆┆ characters:
➵ mara
⤿ ‘Death can sympathize with harsh women—life forced them to become so.’
i loved her, i hated her, i wanted her, and i wanted to be her. i love it when characters make me feel incredibly conflicted, so even if she did tick me off at times, i kinda like her. would read a book that was truly based on her, should one ever come out.
⤷ ♪ ‘history of man’ by maisie peters
➵ kitt
⤿ ‘Smoke fills my lungs until I’m choking on the consequences of my actions. I am not a monster.’
proud to say i was a kitt defender before Fearless came out, and this book did not deter me. do i think his moral compass is well and truly fucked? oh absolutely. but i can understand why, and can therefore understand him. in conclusion: kitt, i’m sorry, and i still believe that you deserve more.
⤷ ♪ ‘family line’ by conan gray
➵ others
lenny: oh my word, what an investment this guy was. i’m somehow even more in love with him than i was originally. he’s such a golden (ginger) retriever.
blair: 30% ignorance, 70% diva. the diva side won out. love a good complicated character.
┆ ⤿ 🗝️ ⌗ quotes:
⋆ (this section contains potential spoilers!)
➵ ‘She quite likes to be underestimated. Earning a look of terror from a man is all the more rewarding that way.’
➵ ‘It is better to feel nothing than it is to feel everything alone.’
➵ ‘Water too cold, it burns. Fire too large, it consumes. Love too grand, it kills.‘
➵ “I would have believed you were a deity, if only you said so. I wouldn’t have questioned worshiping something so divine.”
➵ ‘Nothing more. (But maybe, just maybe, something more.)’
➵ ‘It seems in every instance, in every body, Kai Azer chooses Paedyn Gray.’
➵ “I would know you by the beat of your heart alone. And I think that should count for something.”
➵ ‘I am with my brother. I don’t want to be anywhere else.’
🪦⋆₊˚⊹ ☆
⤿ rating: ★★☆☆☆ (2.5)
⤿ age rating: 13+
⤿ spice: 0/5
⤿ genres: ya, fantasy, romance
⤿ content warnings:
⋆ death & grief
⋆ violence
⋆ minor language
spoiler-free review!
༊*·༄`✦ִֶ 𓂃⊹
★₊˚ෆ ⋆┆ playlist:
➵ i told you things, gracie abrams
➵ me and my husband, mitski
➵ nobody, mitski
➵ the fruits, paris paloma
➵ this is me trying, taylor swift
★₊˚ෆ ⋆┆ tropes:
➵ badass fmc
➵ banter
➵ dual pov
➵ everyone’s traumatised™
➵ mortal x immortal
➵ reverse grumpy x sunshine
➵ support women’s wrongs™
➵ the MCs are touch starved™
ִ ࣪𖤐°⋆⸜ 𓏲 ∿ plot:
as someone who has been following the author since before the release of Powerless, i truly don’t know what to say about this. i was so excited for this to come out so we could delve deeper into kitt’s character and be introduced to a new and interesting fmc. as far as i was aware, this was supposed to be a romance between kitt and death, but i feel like i was misled. most of the romance plot was focused on other characters—in fact, i’d say that 60% of the book was dedicated to everyone but that ‘main’ romance.
i can’t tell if i’m underwhelmed because i expected more from this, or because it was actually underwhelming. i think i may have set myself up for failure slightly, because i adored Powerful and assumed that this would be of a similar vein. there were so many unanswered questions, and many things that i cannot see the significance of. i feel like this is more of a filler than an actual novella.
i’ll take a break from complaining for a minute and say that i certainly didn’t hate it. i was invested in the main four, and i actually really liked mara for the majority of the book. however, after finishing it, i’ve now come to the conclusion that i respect mara, i understand kitt, but i don’t love either of them. lenny and blair, however? *tee-hee.*
ִ ࣪𖤐°⋆⸜ 𓏲 ∿ world-building:
i was really looking forward to a novella set in the afterlife, but, once again, i think i was misled. i think many locations were underdeveloped and i was unable to truly understand what was going on half the time. unfortunately, this was just a very confusing book.
┆ ⤿ ✉️ ⌗ edit:
⤿ the letters. what the actual fuck. no no no no no, someone help me. (found in the audiobook)
★₊˚ෆ ⋆┆ characters:
➵ mara
⤿ ‘Death can sympathize with harsh women—life forced them to become so.’
i loved her, i hated her, i wanted her, and i wanted to be her. i love it when characters make me feel incredibly conflicted, so even if she did tick me off at times, i kinda like her. would read a book that was truly based on her, should one ever come out.
⤷ ♪ ‘history of man’ by maisie peters
➵ kitt
⤿ ‘Smoke fills my lungs until I’m choking on the consequences of my actions. I am not a monster.’
proud to say i was a kitt defender before Fearless came out, and this book did not deter me. do i think his moral compass is well and truly fucked? oh absolutely. but i can understand why, and can therefore understand him. in conclusion: kitt, i’m sorry, and i still believe that you deserve more.
⤷ ♪ ‘family line’ by conan gray
➵ others
lenny: oh my word, what an investment this guy was. i’m somehow even more in love with him than i was originally. he’s such a golden (ginger) retriever.
blair: 30% ignorance, 70% diva. the diva side won out. love a good complicated character.
┆ ⤿ 🗝️ ⌗ quotes:
⋆ (this section contains potential spoilers!)
➵ ‘She quite likes to be underestimated. Earning a look of terror from a man is all the more rewarding that way.’
➵ ‘It is better to feel nothing than it is to feel everything alone.’
➵ ‘Water too cold, it burns. Fire too large, it consumes. Love too grand, it kills.‘
➵ “I would have believed you were a deity, if only you said so. I wouldn’t have questioned worshiping something so divine.”
➵ ‘Nothing more. (But maybe, just maybe, something more.)’
➵ ‘It seems in every instance, in every body, Kai Azer chooses Paedyn Gray.’
➵ “I would know you by the beat of your heart alone. And I think that should count for something.”
➵ ‘I am with my brother. I don’t want to be anywhere else.’
🪦⋆₊˚⊹ ☆
September 9, 2025
Rating: 1 star just for the sake of Kai and Pae.
“It seems in every instance, in every body, Kai Azer chooses Paedyn Gray.”
I’M ACTUALLY LOSING MY MIND 😭 like tell me HOW this is supposed to be from the same series I was obsessed with?? Because the next time if you tell me ‘Ohh you love the Powerless series’, I won’t even think about this disaster.
The whiplash is insane, I went from inhaling the last book, screaming, crying, throwing up, completely in love… to THIS?? A book so boring it felt like homework. A literal chore. I kept flipping pages waiting for the magic to kick in, waiting to feel even an ounce of the high the last one gave me, and nope. NOTHING. Just confusion, frustration, and me side-eyeing my Kindle like, is this really happening?? HOW did I go from loving the last one with my whole chest to barely being able to stand this one??? I feel scammed. I feel betrayed. I need a refund on my TIME. 😤
Ugh, honestly, I don’t even know where to start with this one, and that in itself says a lot. Normally, I can always find the words to write a proper review, break down my thoughts, and highlight at least a few things I liked, but with this book? I just can’t, no actually, I don’t want to. The truth is, it ended up being nothing more than a complete waste of my time, and I’m really frustrated about it. I even paused reading my other books ‘books I was actually excited for’ just to give this one a shot because I thought it might finally give me answers to the lingering questions I had from Fearless. Instead, I came out of it even more confused than I was going in.
I went into this expecting at least some clarity, or maybe even a fresh angle that would expand on what we already knew, but what I got instead felt hollow, like a filler chapter that didn’t serve any purpose. There were moments where I kept hoping things would pick up, where I thought maybe the answers would finally come, but by the time I reached the end, nothing had been resolved.
💬 pre-view:
AHHHH IT IS FINALLY HEREE!! I am ready to shatter down into pieces, If I disappear yk...
“Love too grand, it kills.”
Okey, Lauren listen to me.
Do you really intend to rip my heart to pieces again—right after I’d barely healed from the reckless scratches of the last story? Deep down, I knew this was coming. The warning signs were all there: the shadows in the castle, the weight of Death’s gaze, the kind of love that burns too fiercely to survive. And still, I walked straight into it, knowing it would hurt.
Because that’s what this story promises: not gentle healing, but beautiful ruin.
You thought you healed from Reckless scars.
But this story was never meant to heal you—
it was meant to break you beautifully.
And I am ready for it…
“It seems in every instance, in every body, Kai Azer chooses Paedyn Gray.”
I’M ACTUALLY LOSING MY MIND 😭 like tell me HOW this is supposed to be from the same series I was obsessed with?? Because the next time if you tell me ‘Ohh you love the Powerless series’, I won’t even think about this disaster.
The whiplash is insane, I went from inhaling the last book, screaming, crying, throwing up, completely in love… to THIS?? A book so boring it felt like homework. A literal chore. I kept flipping pages waiting for the magic to kick in, waiting to feel even an ounce of the high the last one gave me, and nope. NOTHING. Just confusion, frustration, and me side-eyeing my Kindle like, is this really happening?? HOW did I go from loving the last one with my whole chest to barely being able to stand this one??? I feel scammed. I feel betrayed. I need a refund on my TIME. 😤
Ugh, honestly, I don’t even know where to start with this one, and that in itself says a lot. Normally, I can always find the words to write a proper review, break down my thoughts, and highlight at least a few things I liked, but with this book? I just can’t, no actually, I don’t want to. The truth is, it ended up being nothing more than a complete waste of my time, and I’m really frustrated about it. I even paused reading my other books ‘books I was actually excited for’ just to give this one a shot because I thought it might finally give me answers to the lingering questions I had from Fearless. Instead, I came out of it even more confused than I was going in.
I went into this expecting at least some clarity, or maybe even a fresh angle that would expand on what we already knew, but what I got instead felt hollow, like a filler chapter that didn’t serve any purpose. There were moments where I kept hoping things would pick up, where I thought maybe the answers would finally come, but by the time I reached the end, nothing had been resolved.
💬 pre-view:
AHHHH IT IS FINALLY HEREE!! I am ready to shatter down into pieces, If I disappear yk...
“Love too grand, it kills.”
Okey, Lauren listen to me.
Do you really intend to rip my heart to pieces again—right after I’d barely healed from the reckless scratches of the last story? Deep down, I knew this was coming. The warning signs were all there: the shadows in the castle, the weight of Death’s gaze, the kind of love that burns too fiercely to survive. And still, I walked straight into it, knowing it would hurt.
Because that’s what this story promises: not gentle healing, but beautiful ruin.
You thought you healed from Reckless scars.
But this story was never meant to heal you—
it was meant to break you beautifully.
And I am ready for it…
October 1, 2025
this was EVIL pure EVIL i cried SIX TIMES
Want to read
June 12, 2025one question, why?
September 22, 2025
oh yes bitch i’m sat
(update)
i was not sat…listening to this at 2x speed on audible was the only way i could get through it. even then i was struggling to get thru it. there was just….nothing? this was unfortunately just a crash grab :/
(update)
i was not sat…listening to this at 2x speed on audible was the only way i could get through it. even then i was struggling to get thru it. there was just….nothing? this was unfortunately just a crash grab :/
September 10, 2025
pre-read: AHHHH IM SO EXCITEDDD!!! 🥳This is one of my MOST anticipated reads of the year!! I’m so excited to get back into this world i missed it so much ☺️ i think this is the last installment of the series 😔😔so i’m going to savor it as much as possible. Buddy read with my sister @Stell 💞💞
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I’m distraught. rtc.
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3.5 🌟
EXCUSE ME?! WHAT was that ending oh my lord 😭😭
🎵 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 🎵
𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 ~
Ok. so. I had a fun time and i enjoyed entering into this world again, i truly, truly did, it was like being encased in a warm hug since i’m so fond of this series, however, this did fall short of my expectations a bit and is, sadly, my least favorite installment in this series. You can really tell that Lauren’s writing really matured in this book, which is amazing, but i felt that the story didn’t have that many chapters in Kitts pov and explaining even more of what was going on in his head and instead following more of Mara watching Lenny and Blair, which i had a good time reading about, but i felt that it took too much of the book.
"𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠"
𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐭 ~
I am quite literally Kitt’s #1 defender. I love him so much and he is soooo misunderstood. I’ve always loved and always will love Kitt as a character, people say they want a complex character and can’t even handle him 🙄✋Anyway, it hurts to be in kitt’s pov because you can see how he loves kai so much and its so sad to see how his thoughts turned out and what he could’ve been. It’s literally all the kings fault 😭😭 he literally destroyed my baby’s mind.
"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨 𝐈 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈'𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭"
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚 ~
I really liked her, but at the ending i just wish they could’ve communicated more because this could’ve turned out a lot better. it’s so cool to be in Mara’s (deaths) pov and especially when she drops hints about her past and i can’t help but want more. she was a very interesting character to read about.
"𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧"
𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 ~
—> "𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰”
—> "𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬— 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲—𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠.”
—> "𝐈𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭," 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲, "𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐢𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐨. 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞."
—> "𝐈𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧?"
—> "𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥'—𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡—"𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐬𝐨." 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬. "𝐁𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫?"
"𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠"
𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥 ~
I wish we got a bit more scenes with mara and kitt and less of blair and lenny, don’t get me wrong i still loved them but i wished we had more of our main characters together. I enjoyed this book but it definitely could’ve been done better, and i still keep thinking about that ending 😭😭like whyyyyy. I also realized that i have even more questions by the end of this, it was a little open ended?? all i can do is be delusional and pretend it didn’t happen or that it gets better.
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I’m distraught. rtc.
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3.5 🌟
EXCUSE ME?! WHAT was that ending oh my lord 😭😭
🎵 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 🎵
𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 ~
Ok. so. I had a fun time and i enjoyed entering into this world again, i truly, truly did, it was like being encased in a warm hug since i’m so fond of this series, however, this did fall short of my expectations a bit and is, sadly, my least favorite installment in this series. You can really tell that Lauren’s writing really matured in this book, which is amazing, but i felt that the story didn’t have that many chapters in Kitts pov and explaining even more of what was going on in his head and instead following more of Mara watching Lenny and Blair, which i had a good time reading about, but i felt that it took too much of the book.
"𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠"
𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐭 ~
I am quite literally Kitt’s #1 defender. I love him so much and he is soooo misunderstood. I’ve always loved and always will love Kitt as a character, people say they want a complex character and can’t even handle him 🙄✋Anyway, it hurts to be in kitt’s pov because you can see how he loves kai so much and its so sad to see how his thoughts turned out and what he could’ve been. It’s literally all the kings fault 😭😭 he literally destroyed my baby’s mind.
"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨 𝐈 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈'𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭"
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚 ~
I really liked her, but at the ending i just wish they could’ve communicated more because this could’ve turned out a lot better. it’s so cool to be in Mara’s (deaths) pov and especially when she drops hints about her past and i can’t help but want more. she was a very interesting character to read about.
"𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧"
𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 ~
—> "𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰”
—> "𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬— 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲—𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠.”
—> "𝐈𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭," 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲, "𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐢𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐨. 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞."
—> "𝐈𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧?"
—> "𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥'—𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡—"𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐬𝐨." 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬. "𝐁𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫?"
"𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠"
𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥 ~
I wish we got a bit more scenes with mara and kitt and less of blair and lenny, don’t get me wrong i still loved them but i wished we had more of our main characters together. I enjoyed this book but it definitely could’ve been done better, and i still keep thinking about that ending 😭😭like whyyyyy. I also realized that i have even more questions by the end of this, it was a little open ended?? all i can do is be delusional and pretend it didn’t happen or that it gets better.
September 4, 2025
⭐️ 4 ⭐️ This is probably the best one in the series! I kid you not, this was written VERY well— the narrator is DEATH and it explored so many topics and themes and as someone who was not a fan of Reckless and Fearless, this one carried a lot of emotion, hope, forgiveness.
I thought this would be simply Kitts redemption story, but this was so much more. I did not expect this to venture out and give us a ‘Blair and Lenny’ (side characters) story. I think Blair was a very misunderstood character for the most part and Robert’s filled in the gaps for us.
I have so many quotes saved, won’t release them just yet. Want to give people a chance to experience this story without spoilers!!!!
My thoughts—I think this novella is a start of something new. Possibly a new duology or trilogy that will focus on Mara’s storyline; of her past and present.
FULL REVIEW TO FOLLOW!!!!
I thought this would be simply Kitts redemption story, but this was so much more. I did not expect this to venture out and give us a ‘Blair and Lenny’ (side characters) story. I think Blair was a very misunderstood character for the most part and Robert’s filled in the gaps for us.
I have so many quotes saved, won’t release them just yet. Want to give people a chance to experience this story without spoilers!!!!
My thoughts—I think this novella is a start of something new. Possibly a new duology or trilogy that will focus on Mara’s storyline; of her past and present.
FULL REVIEW TO FOLLOW!!!!
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June 12, 2025quantity over quality…..WHO SAID THAT
September 15, 2025
well this book was definitely original. PEDOPHILIA AND INCEST IN ONE BOOK? what the fuck???
real footage of me showing lauren the way out of the writing and publishing industry
no it's the fact we're getting a book about paedyn and kai's daughter because of that ending😔😔
real footage of me showing lauren the way out of the writing and publishing industry
no it's the fact we're getting a book about paedyn and kai's daughter because of that ending😔😔
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