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Beztroska by Lauren Roberts

101 reviews

butilikeit's review against another edition

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

2.5

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boba_nbooks's review against another edition

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challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Spice Rating: 🫑 / 5 🌶️

This sequel to Powerless was a similarly fun read in the romantasy series, though I believe it suffered a bit from "second book syndrome."

The trials have ended, and Paedyn is running for her life. The princes who once considered themselves friends of Paedyn are now hunting her down. Kitt finds himself in charge of the kingdom and sends the Enforcer, his brother Kai, to find Paedyn and bring her to him alive.

Readers get a few small snippets from Kitt's perspective alongside Kai's and Paedyn's points of view. The game of cat-and-mouse between Paedyn and Kai plays out multiple times throughout this novel, and this does get old after a while. What doesn't get old is the romantic tension between the two. The banter and near misses are top notch.

Though Reckless wasn't a 5 star read for me, that ending left me reeling. I'm going to read the next book regardless, but I do hope to see more plot in the third installment of the trilogy.
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spatterson7's review against another edition

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

3.75

Editing was lacking. Lots of spelling/grammar errors. Places where the wrong form of a word was used (ex. using “due” instead of “due” or using “straitened” instead of “straightened”).  Very noticeable and distracting. 
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orangeowl55's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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pricklybutnice's review against another edition

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

2.75

Honestly the majority of the book was ok, but 75% was redundant.
We spend basically the first 75% flipping between Paedyn being the captive and Kai being the captive.
As such the plot never seems to progress. Especially since all this happens in basically the same setting. Basically nothing happens in the first 75% of the book which is too long. There’s also the matter of the weird data dump that is clearly because the author got a lot of criticism on book 1 for missing motivations. I think this book had a lot of potential it just missed the mark. 
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alexlynx's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

What the heck am I supposed to do until April?! God damn. Honestly, very unsure about the ending. I have my theories but that was so fucking out of the blue. And the epilogue seemed a little rushed. But otherwise, such a roller coaster of emotions.
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mayareads4fun's review against another edition

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

4.0

I think I enjoyed Powerless more than I did the sequel. Parts felt rushed and it felt dragged at moments. 
However, I loved the moments we saw with Kai and Pae that weren’t just them arguing and bickering. But actually communicating. 
That ENDING
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hannahsquid's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Behind spoiler reactions to ending!!
UMMM I AM NOT OK WITH THIIS ENDING KITT IS JUST LIKE HIS FATHER BUT 100 TIMES WORSE  I recommend having something to scream into or punch (maybe a little bit of both) when you get to this ending. JUST KNOW I GAVE YOU A WARNING!!!!  WILL I EVER RECOVER FROM THIS??? I GUEESS I AHVE TO WAIT UNTI,.L APRIL OF 2025 TO FIND OUT.
Other then the ending I enjoyed this book and set a new personal record for finishing a book: 2 days. I do feel like the writing was lacking in some spots (compared to powerless) however there is MANY instances where Lauren's writing is just incredible. Spoiler for how plot develops
I do understand the complains of more of a build up to Kai and Payton meeting and while I semi agree with this I did enjoy the struggles of getting back to the kingdom.
Overall, I would say if you enjoyed powerless this would be a great next read. Before this book came out I was in a reading slump after finishing powerless, this might be my last review until April.... 
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whatjoannasreading's review against another edition

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

4.75

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randirush's review against another edition

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

4.0

this was pretty fast-paced and kept me engaged, but definitely ended up feeling overly repetitive around the middle… i adore paedyn and kai though so i am super excited for book 3, especially bc i think this one set up everything for the final book to be pretty eventful 😏 
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