powerless is what happens when you read the hunger games and only focus on the everlark romance, missing the deeper themes. then you read red queen and somehow think it's brilliant, and are like "let me combine the two🤓☝" ofc the romance booktube/booktok girls think it's the best book ever written
And somehow make the characters look like cardboard cut outs with no personality at all... So much that you can't even differenciate between their inner monologues
People calling her the next JK Rowling reminds me of when people were saying that the Crescent City series was hard to understand because it is on the same level as Lord of the Rings and some people are not used to that kind of complexity like no, people don’t understand it because it was written sooo poorly
One of the problems with early success as an author is that there's no incentive to get better at the craft. If your poorly written book can make money, there's no need to get better to widen the audience. Otherwise, we'd have seen those improvements in a lot of authors. 🤷♀
S E Hinton published The Outsiders at 18 and managed to create an original, heartfelt book with characters that felt real and raw. It’s not a matter of age, it’s about talent and research. I’m tired of people saying “she was only 18 when she wrote it and she wrote it for herself; she didn’t think anyone would read it.” First off, I have a fully grown frontal lobe, so I know that that’s not true. You learn not to copyright at like 12 years old (at least in the States). She knows she copy and pasted exact scenes and characters, which is why she gave the disclaimer beforehand that “it’s a combination of the Hunger Games and Red Queen.” If she didn’t make that disclaimer, she’d be in a PR nightmare. And if she really “wrote it for herself” she wouldn’t have marketed it so heavily on TikTok, so that’s a piss poor excuse. People have developed a parasocial relationship with Lauren Roberts and can’t see beyond her bubbly Internet personality. It’s clouding their judgment to a severely mediocre and horribly unoriginal book that does a disservice to the YA fantasy genre.
R. F. Kuang wrote The Poppy War when she was 18-19, if I'm not mistaken, and it is a complex, military-political fantasy based on real historical events. I understand that not all people are geniuses, but justifying mediocrity and plagiarism by the age of a person (who is, in fact, already an adult!) is stupid.
Christopher Paolini wrote Eragon at 16, but even that the book is filled with complex worldbuilding and characters. Yes, there are some drawbacks in the book (and the whole series) but I'm still impressed with what he's written at such a young age even until this very day
What makes me so upset is that she says all that, but still allows her publihing compaby to charge 20-30 dollars per book when they arent worth more than being free on wattpad. Real people are purchasing these books and I feel like it was such a waste of money. Tiktok scews goodread and amazon reviews as well, making it harder to determine if the book is genuinely good or not.
@@s.y.k.a1912 Eragon is not good, bruh. It’s very derivative, the plot is meandering, empty, and way too long, the writing as a whole is very poor, and the characters are flat. Plus his parents owned the publishing house Eragon was produced from. With the power of nepotism, he got published. Not impressive in the slightest.
I’m so tired of the whole “this book is [insert popular book 1] meets [insert popular book 2]” marketing. The claim either ends up being a massive stretch or is a literal copy-paste. I get everyone all art derives some inspiration from previous art but they shouldn’t be so similar! It feels unethical
My brain will always associate the 'girl robs a prince' trope with snow and charming from once upon a time so I would not be able to take a scene like that seriously in any book😭
Überraschung I'm german and when I was watching you for the first time I was like "Huh.. that accent sounds familiar... Is she from around here?" and then like about 20 minutes later you talked about something german and I was having an Ahhh-moment lol
Powerless left me powerless No but I hated this book and all its characters And cmon who are we trying to fool with Kit in the love triangle lol he doesn't even have a POV
The only thing I'm grateful to this book is that was so bad that I needed to read Brandon Sanderson for first time to cure my eyes. edit: Also something that stayed with me: why people voted for Paedyn to be part of the trials? they hate her? Because it was portrayed as an honor but... you're sending her to die. In extense, other book that this have "similarities" with is The Lunar Chronicles, might be coincidece but Cinder's love interest name is Kai (prince she mets in the town and then he becomes king) and the earth has a disease and stuff like that.
That stuck with me too…like she killed one strong guy and now yall are sending her off to her death? It would make sense if the author wrote that portion as the people in the slums would try to send the strongest of their citizens to fight in the trials to gain a sort of “foothold “ in society to show they aren’t completely weak….but to just throw a random person in there and they’re all cheering when they know it isn’t exactly an honor ? And even then, it never made sense how winning the trials was an honor for anyone. You’re just fighting a // few // other people, it’s not like they’re fighting against each type of power and seeing which one is the strongest of them all..
i got to like, idk, 7-8 chapters of this and i already had so many complaints like first of all the prince is a terrible person like what do you mean he commits war crimes and im supposed to root for him? like wdym the dude goes around killing people based on traits that they’re born with (at his father’s orders but still) that are brought about by a latent “disease” (it’s implied that there’s no proof of this disease existing) and is responsible for exiling those who have housed/hid/helped such people?? mind you this exile is basically the prince taking them to a treacherous desert with no supplies or preparation, just dumps them in there and tells them to take a hike. and we’re supposed to feel bad for him bc the people he killed haunt him??? he’s a good guy now cause he doesn’t kill kids directly but he’ll dump her with her family and let her die in the desert instead?? this is the guy we’re meant to be rooting for???
His actions also may cause another problem: rebels. If they do survive, they can join the revolutionaries for revenge, which is stupid on his part. If you don't want to risk rebellion, don't keep potentials alive.
@@giveandtake8428 yeah, but that applies if you’re looking at his actions from the pov of a military strategist. my comment was looking at his actions from an ethical/moral perspective. he’s a terrible person who has aided in carrying out a genocide and has committed war crimes. the number of parallels you can draw to real world genocides is mental and it’s baffling that the author couldn’t recognise this. given that this book, like most tiktok-famous books, is primarily a romance makes it especially messed up considering the main character has no powers herself
Exxaaaccctllyy… I read for a good 100 pages and the entire time I’m sitting there like…why is paedyn already curious/attracted to a guy that is actually going out and killing people of her kind and those in her hometown, yet she is more disgusted and mad at Kai cause he simply looks like the king who made these rules… when he very obviously hasn’t done anything as heinous as the prince you’re referring to (I fr forgot this man’s name). There was nothing interesting about any of the characters and certainly there wasn’t any way to actually redeem the stuff the prince had done. The author must have hoped we would get blind sided by the prince’s inability to wear a shirt for longer than 4 seconds and just forget his backstory altogether..
I read this book in a local book club only because everyone were so excited about it, and i was so disappointed with how they all thought it was amazing. Did we even read the same thing? And the second book is just worse But to be fair, the author is pretty young she just hasn't found her voice yet, which i believe she will if she just deleted tiktok and Instagram and actually tried to use her own imagination
This was absolutely hilarious! That part about the three K’s with Kitt, Kai, and the king was so 🤣 I actually really enjoyed Powerless (I’m a contemporary reader so I needed a super basic and simple fantasy story plus the audiobook is sooo good for Kai’s voice) BUT I completely agree with you, this book makes no sense. No spoilers but Lauren Roberts apparently said she has no idea the motivation for why Kitt does something at the end of Reckless, she just hopes she’ll figure it out while she’s writing the third book. There’s this thing called outlining and she seriously needs to use it because the bad decisions are getting ridiculous (i.e. the entirety of Reckless honestly)
It's literally so bad. Somehow it manages to feel like insta love and they don't even kiss in the end lmao. I almost quit after Kai mentions for the 100th time about his sO cUtE habit of running around without a top on, as if that's something men feel the need to point out like its a quirk of theirs lol I was baffled at what I was reading because everyone spoke so highly of it and I can't believe my eyes
I dnfed after 150 pages...the writing didn't seem real. I heard the author say she wrote the draft when she was like 16, which I thought (understandable) that it was. but now I'm looking at reviews for the sequel and people say the writing is more or less the same...
i read up to page 145 and dnf’ed it. i felt like we just went over the same thing for soooooo long. i explained what i read to my brother and was thinking “why does it seem like nothings even happened… how am i 145 pages in and nothing that interesting has happened…?” and it’s because of the POVs. the switch makes it repetitive as hell since she rewrites info we just got in the last pov. made me dnf because how the hell do you get me to read 145 pages and nothing has really happened or changed 😭
I actually enjoyed Powerless but I read it before Red Queen & completely see how it’s basically the same thing. Also, isn’t Lauren Roberts basically the new Veronica Roth?
Omg same, I also read powerless before red queen and after i read red queen i was like wait a minute… and i also remember seeing some reviews back when Powerless came out and they where saying i cant read it because it’s so similar to the hunger games and Red Queen, and i thought they where being dramatic, but after reading red queen, I don’t think I’ll be able to go read reckless. Because i just feel like powerless is now bland if that makes sense 😊
Sorry im at 22:09 rn and i have so many questions i have to pause because? Maybe these get answered later on but: 1) only the people who have powers are inside the city and everyone else is outside, then who does all the labor for the nobility? Do they allow some non powered people inside to cook/clean etc etc? And if so, why would the elites want to spread a rumor that they carry a disease? Like thats their main source of labor did no one think of this? Also they themselves literally got their powers from a plague and its only been 30 years like no one has forgotten this 2) Why would anyone assume a plague cause multiple generations of people to have superpowers? I feel like most powered people would be in the situation where the parents have powers and their children dont? If this was something they were infected with? I feel like youd have some people purposely seek out their plague to infect people too 3) Why would strength powers be favored over mind powers in any monarchy system when knights were more expected to actually showcase their strength in ways it would be rarer for nobility to do. Like why would none strength powers be considered “boring” when they have utility to these upper elites 4) how would the main chatacter live in the main city and not know what the prince looks like? Is she supposed to be a good thief?? Because why would she not no that 5) wait if her dad is a healer then why is she a thief??? Like i understand that her family isnt nobility but her dad has powers, that would still place her in a better position that most? Is the city just That Bad?
@@susanwilson639 You need to look at the dates too. She rated the selection in like 2015 and the cruel prince in 2020. People's tastes mature and (taking myself as reference), what you loved as a teen is something you cringe at when you're an adult.
I think about the Young Elites all of the time but not fondly, all because of my younger self’s bias. I didn’t want to read a story about the main character being a villain and I hated one character’s death. But now I desire that LMAO. Maybe I should pick it back up.
7:30 sounds like the main character in Sleep like Death by KB. She would always talk about killing everyone with her power and dagger. It would be mentioned in every chapter every two pages for the whole book.
I would only compare someone’s work to Harry Potter if I wanted to insult them. Nogstalgia is the ONLY reason people like those books. They have shallow characters, nonsensical worldbuilding, and flimsy stoytelling. So... maybe Powerless is the next Harry Potter 😂
No really LMAO because I watched the movies when I was younger and loved them then. But then I read the books last year and I still think about how bad the worldbuilding is, how bland the characters are, and how so much of the series aged like milk. Not to mention JK Rowling is awful lol
I've actually considered reading this series but I wasn't sure. There's been rumors of AI on the covers. I've been doing research & reading the blurb. I was made aware of the book titles being the same as those other books but do agree it sounds more like fantasy. I do think that the character sounds common. Utopian type world. Power system set-up. Not necessarily a bad thing because if it's a YA it would make sense. Characters must have challenges in order for there to be an interesting plot. Sounds like it's kinda a Hunger Games mix with other fantasy books (royalty, powers, authority sucks). Thank you for talking about this.
Shower Thoughts 🙌 🎉🎉🎉🎉 This makes me hopeful that I can publish my own shower thoughts and become wildly successful... No, I'm sure Lauren Roberts is just NOT like other authors. Chosen one vibes ✨️ I can't wait to read Red Queen! 🤗 Hunger Games was one of my favorites back in the day. 👍I will say, the voice actor for Kye sounds so hot. 🤣🤣🤣 ✌️+❤
I find it interesting that this book’s cover originally had the same font as the Lunar Chronicles covers (I think they changed it) and there’s also a prince named Kai in that series. Not saying it’s a rip-off of that but it just feels like there wasn’t an original thought in this book.
When I started reading this I thought, young elites, red queen, hunger games, the Ascension series (King Edric) 😅 caught in a love triangle with two royal brothers.
OMG I always wondered if I was the problem here. Am I too stupid to understand the book and the sense of the trials. But you proved me wrong, it’s just the bad writing of this book. 😍😭
this book was soooo hard to get into. ofc i was skeptical with reading it but i want to understand the hype around it. the writing was mediocre, the dialogue was cringy oh myy the forced sexual tension between paedyn and kai was so bad i cannot read it without cringing. the pacing was soooo slooooowww i was 25 chapters in and nothing interesting was happening because every bit was predictable. the characters are forgettable and bland, the only thing interesting about the paedyn is she has silver hair??? but everything else abt her was unoriginal. she's from the slums, a thief, and part of a rebellion? oh, thats somewhat familiar. plus there were scenes that was literally copied and pasted from the hunger games, especially the interview stuff before the ball and the trials. anw this book was not it and i def dnfed it
Actually what I got out of this is that I can generate a better story with chatgpt. Hitting up Sophie once I’ve edited and adapted the entire chatgpt conversation into a book
I’m gonna be so real I’ve got nothing to say this time but I’m glad the Young Elites were mentioned. I read it when I was like 15 and I liked it and felt that a lot of future series ripped it off but I think that’s just cuz they’re all the same. Being left affected after an illness tho or getting powers that way is totally a rip of it.
I actually enjoyed this but full disclaimer, I read this at the same time i was reading haunting adeline and going on a trip. This was very tropey and predictable, but I still enjoyed it. That being said, I'm hella worried for the sequels.
What the hell are ppl talking about mimimi little Roberts was just 18. get the hell out of here. lol R.F. Kuang wrote the Poppy War when she was fcking 19.
42:54 there’s no such thing as “my truth “, I think you meant your interpretation of what you remember. 1:10:25 mansplaining doesn’t exist, it’s just a regular explaining.
You know you’ve made it as an author when influencers make fun ranting videos like this about you. Also, is it wrong that your review kind of made me want to read Powerless more???😅
I get that people like to read simpler things rather than more complex writings, but i think there’s definitely a line 😭one dimensional copies with just the same recycled tropes gets annoying after a point.
powerless is what happens when you read the hunger games and only focus on the everlark romance, missing the deeper themes. then you read red queen and somehow think it's brilliant, and are like "let me combine the two🤓☝" ofc the romance booktube/booktok girls think it's the best book ever written
And somehow make the characters look like cardboard cut outs with no personality at all... So much that you can't even differenciate between their inner monologues
People calling her the next JK Rowling reminds me of when people were saying that the Crescent City series was hard to understand because it is on the same level as Lord of the Rings and some people are not used to that kind of complexity like no, people don’t understand it because it was written sooo poorly
Lord if the rings??? LMAO
Tolkien is spinning in his grave like a rotisserie chicken
Or when COHO fans were calling her the next Jane Austin 💀 the audacity!!
Comparing Crescent City to Lord of the Rings is a new level of insanity, have those people even bothered reading Tolkien work before saying that???
People really said that?? wow.
One of the problems with early success as an author is that there's no incentive to get better at the craft. If your poorly written book can make money, there's no need to get better to widen the audience. Otherwise, we'd have seen those improvements in a lot of authors. 🤷♀
S E Hinton published The Outsiders at 18 and managed to create an original, heartfelt book with characters that felt real and raw. It’s not a matter of age, it’s about talent and research. I’m tired of people saying “she was only 18 when she wrote it and she wrote it for herself; she didn’t think anyone would read it.” First off, I have a fully grown frontal lobe, so I know that that’s not true. You learn not to copyright at like 12 years old (at least in the States). She knows she copy and pasted exact scenes and characters, which is why she gave the disclaimer beforehand that “it’s a combination of the Hunger Games and Red Queen.” If she didn’t make that disclaimer, she’d be in a PR nightmare. And if she really “wrote it for herself” she wouldn’t have marketed it so heavily on TikTok, so that’s a piss poor excuse. People have developed a parasocial relationship with Lauren Roberts and can’t see beyond her bubbly Internet personality. It’s clouding their judgment to a severely mediocre and horribly unoriginal book that does a disservice to the YA fantasy genre.
R. F. Kuang wrote The Poppy War when she was 18-19, if I'm not mistaken, and it is a complex, military-political fantasy based on real historical events. I understand that not all people are geniuses, but justifying mediocrity and plagiarism by the age of a person (who is, in fact, already an adult!) is stupid.
Christopher Paolini wrote Eragon at 16, but even that the book is filled with complex worldbuilding and characters. Yes, there are some drawbacks in the book (and the whole series) but I'm still impressed with what he's written at such a young age even until this very day
What makes me so upset is that she says all that, but still allows her publihing compaby to charge 20-30 dollars per book when they arent worth more than being free on wattpad. Real people are purchasing these books and I feel like it was such a waste of money. Tiktok scews goodread and amazon reviews as well, making it harder to determine if the book is genuinely good or not.
@@s.y.k.a1912 Eragon is also super derivative and mediocre, I wouldn't use that as a counterexample. But yeah it is great to get published at 16
@@s.y.k.a1912 Eragon is not good, bruh. It’s very derivative, the plot is meandering, empty, and way too long, the writing as a whole is very poor, and the characters are flat. Plus his parents owned the publishing house Eragon was produced from. With the power of nepotism, he got published. Not impressive in the slightest.
I’m so tired of the whole “this book is [insert popular book 1] meets [insert popular book 2]” marketing. The claim either ends up being a massive stretch or is a literal copy-paste. I get everyone all art derives some inspiration from previous art but they shouldn’t be so similar! It feels unethical
same! it sucks it's the most effective way to get people to pick up the book :// now it's just an influx of books marketed that way
Spoiler alert: the writing is not better in the second book.
Tiktok book (powerless): just basically being a bunch of tropes and 'scenes' and nothing else
Me: not at all surprised
Real talk
as a native english speaker who studied german to fluency you’re actually the most entertaining person 😭😭
My brain will always associate the 'girl robs a prince' trope with snow and charming from once upon a time so I would not be able to take a scene like that seriously in any book😭
Überraschung
I'm german and when I was watching you for the first time I was like "Huh.. that accent sounds familiar... Is she from around here?"
and then like about 20 minutes later you talked about something german and I was having an Ahhh-moment lol
omggggggggggggggggg
I'm half german, currently in Germany and the moment you started talking I knew you were german 😭
so brave of this author to write a king who’s a brony
Powerless left me powerless
No but I hated this book and all its characters
And cmon who are we trying to fool with Kit in the love triangle lol he doesn't even have a POV
The only thing I'm grateful to this book is that was so bad that I needed to read Brandon Sanderson for first time to cure my eyes.
edit: Also something that stayed with me: why people voted for Paedyn to be part of the trials? they hate her? Because it was portrayed as an honor but... you're sending her to die. In extense, other book that this have "similarities" with is The Lunar Chronicles, might be coincidece but Cinder's love interest name is Kai (prince she mets in the town and then he becomes king) and the earth has a disease and stuff like that.
That stuck with me too…like she killed one strong guy and now yall are sending her off to her death? It would make sense if the author wrote that portion as the people in the slums would try to send the strongest of their citizens to fight in the trials to gain a sort of “foothold “ in society to show they aren’t completely weak….but to just throw a random person in there and they’re all cheering when they know it isn’t exactly an honor ? And even then, it never made sense how winning the trials was an honor for anyone. You’re just fighting a // few // other people, it’s not like they’re fighting against each type of power and seeing which one is the strongest of them all..
i got to like, idk, 7-8 chapters of this and i already had so many complaints like first of all the prince is a terrible person like what do you mean he commits war crimes and im supposed to root for him? like wdym the dude goes around killing people based on traits that they’re born with (at his father’s orders but still) that are brought about by a latent “disease” (it’s implied that there’s no proof of this disease existing) and is responsible for exiling those who have housed/hid/helped such people?? mind you this exile is basically the prince taking them to a treacherous desert with no supplies or preparation, just dumps them in there and tells them to take a hike. and we’re supposed to feel bad for him bc the people he killed haunt him??? he’s a good guy now cause he doesn’t kill kids directly but he’ll dump her with her family and let her die in the desert instead?? this is the guy we’re meant to be rooting for???
His actions also may cause another problem: rebels. If they do survive, they can join the revolutionaries for revenge, which is stupid on his part. If you don't want to risk rebellion, don't keep potentials alive.
@@giveandtake8428 yeah, but that applies if you’re looking at his actions from the pov of a military strategist. my comment was looking at his actions from an ethical/moral perspective. he’s a terrible person who has aided in carrying out a genocide and has committed war crimes. the number of parallels you can draw to real world genocides is mental and it’s baffling that the author couldn’t recognise this. given that this book, like most tiktok-famous books, is primarily a romance makes it especially messed up considering the main character has no powers herself
Exxaaaccctllyy… I read for a good 100 pages and the entire time I’m sitting there like…why is paedyn already curious/attracted to a guy that is actually going out and killing people of her kind and those in her hometown, yet she is more disgusted and mad at Kai cause he simply looks like the king who made these rules… when he very obviously hasn’t done anything as heinous as the prince you’re referring to (I fr forgot this man’s name). There was nothing interesting about any of the characters and certainly there wasn’t any way to actually redeem the stuff the prince had done. The author must have hoped we would get blind sided by the prince’s inability to wear a shirt for longer than 4 seconds and just forget his backstory altogether..
25:18 Fun fact, Nikki is her sister 😅 That gives you some insight into why she wasn’t much help in fixing plot holes.
5:33 "It's also a very quick read, and a very easy read. Not that **I** read it quickly or easily" 💀😭
32:49 "I'm not gonna be talking about that man. He's BLONDE" lolll
I read this book in a local book club only because everyone were so excited about it, and i was so disappointed with how they all thought it was amazing. Did we even read the same thing? And the second book is just worse
But to be fair, the author is pretty young she just hasn't found her voice yet, which i believe she will if she just deleted tiktok and Instagram and actually tried to use her own imagination
This was absolutely hilarious! That part about the three K’s with Kitt, Kai, and the king was so 🤣 I actually really enjoyed Powerless (I’m a contemporary reader so I needed a super basic and simple fantasy story plus the audiobook is sooo good for Kai’s voice) BUT I completely agree with you, this book makes no sense. No spoilers but Lauren Roberts apparently said she has no idea the motivation for why Kitt does something at the end of Reckless, she just hopes she’ll figure it out while she’s writing the third book. There’s this thing called outlining and she seriously needs to use it because the bad decisions are getting ridiculous (i.e. the entirety of Reckless honestly)
Wait. Are you serious about the last part?
@@giveandtake8428 Yes
omg need to know where she said this😭😭
@@honestlysophie I’m pretty sure it was from a Goodreads review, they didn’t say which video or article Lauren said this
The Young Elites by Marie Lu was so slept on back in the day, I love that you mentioned that series; it never gets enough appreciation or love!
15:04 "WTF DID I JUST YODEL???" LMFAOOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣
It's literally so bad. Somehow it manages to feel like insta love and they don't even kiss in the end lmao. I almost quit after Kai mentions for the 100th time about his sO cUtE habit of running around without a top on, as if that's something men feel the need to point out like its a quirk of theirs lol I was baffled at what I was reading because everyone spoke so highly of it and I can't believe my eyes
I dnfed after 150 pages...the writing didn't seem real. I heard the author say she wrote the draft when she was like 16, which I thought (understandable) that it was. but now I'm looking at reviews for the sequel and people say the writing is more or less the same...
the MC's name kinda sounds like "peido", which means fart in portuguese 😭😭😭
ok the first i will do while naming my characers is google translate that shit
I speak portuguese and no it doesnt? Its peyton and peido its quite different
her name is paedyn
i read up to page 145 and dnf’ed it. i felt like we just went over the same thing for soooooo long. i explained what i read to my brother and was thinking “why does it seem like nothings even happened… how am i 145 pages in and nothing that interesting has happened…?” and it’s because of the POVs. the switch makes it repetitive as hell since she rewrites info we just got in the last pov. made me dnf because how the hell do you get me to read 145 pages and nothing has really happened or changed 😭
okay but your eyeshadow looks great in this video
The queen is back 😌
The author said she named Kai after Malachai from The Vampire Diaries, so who knows what other 'shower thoughts' originated from there too.
I actually enjoyed Powerless but I read it before Red Queen & completely see how it’s basically the same thing. Also, isn’t Lauren Roberts basically the new Veronica Roth?
Omg same, I also read powerless before red queen and after i read red queen i was like wait a minute… and i also remember seeing some reviews back when Powerless came out and they where saying i cant read it because it’s so similar to the hunger games and Red Queen, and i thought they where being dramatic, but after reading red queen, I don’t think I’ll be able to go read reckless. Because i just feel like powerless is now bland if that makes sense 😊
Sorry im at 22:09 rn and i have so many questions i have to pause because? Maybe these get answered later on but:
1) only the people who have powers are inside the city and everyone else is outside, then who does all the labor for the nobility? Do they allow some non powered people inside to cook/clean etc etc? And if so, why would the elites want to spread a rumor that they carry a disease? Like thats their main source of labor did no one think of this? Also they themselves literally got their powers from a plague and its only been 30 years like no one has forgotten this
2) Why would anyone assume a plague cause multiple generations of people to have superpowers? I feel like most powered people would be in the situation where the parents have powers and their children dont? If this was something they were infected with? I feel like youd have some people purposely seek out their plague to infect people too
3) Why would strength powers be favored over mind powers in any monarchy system when knights were more expected to actually showcase their strength in ways it would be rarer for nobility to do. Like why would none strength powers be considered “boring” when they have utility to these upper elites
4) how would the main chatacter live in the main city and not know what the prince looks like? Is she supposed to be a good thief?? Because why would she not no that
5) wait if her dad is a healer then why is she a thief??? Like i understand that her family isnt nobility but her dad has powers, that would still place her in a better position that most? Is the city just That Bad?
Also, the arena in Red Queen is called “The Bowl”. 😂😂
Your goodreads is ruthless
Her rating system confuses me 😭😭😭 she gives “the selection” 5 stars and “the cruel prince” 2 stars??
@@susanwilson639 You need to look at the dates too. She rated the selection in like 2015 and the cruel prince in 2020. People's tastes mature and (taking myself as reference), what you loved as a teen is something you cringe at when you're an adult.
@@ak.412 Ya that’s possible. I’d still be interested in seeing her rating system considering how low her overall rating is.
THE SKIT AT THE END AAHAHAHAH
Every time a poorly written Hunger Games rip-off becomes popular it reminds me of how good Hunger Games is 😂
omg yOU LOOK SO PRETTYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! the makeup, the hair..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg ily 🥺🥺🥺🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
Yess🎉 this was worth the wait 🙏🏼 thank u queen
EVERYONE TUNE INN SOPHIE POSTEDD ITS A GOOOD DAYYY!😁😁😁
Finally. I need some hate this week. Everyone was so nice😪
As a Dane it’s so weird seeing a German on here, but been a follows for a while!
I think about the Young Elites all of the time but not fondly, all because of my younger self’s bias. I didn’t want to read a story about the main character being a villain and I hated one character’s death. But now I desire that LMAO. Maybe I should pick it back up.
Im super interested to hear your review of the second book!
7:30 sounds like the main character in Sleep like Death by KB. She would always talk about killing everyone with her power and dagger. It would be mentioned in every chapter every two pages for the whole book.
il yur videos, I hate short book reviews or deep dives, Needs to be 50+ min
"What MEHRWERT does it have" - funny to hear your eingestreute deutsche Wörter sometimes as a German😁
1:14:20 PLEASE THAT MADE ME LAUGH SO MUCH AHGDHBHSDAJHBJASK
I was pressured into reading this. Glad I saw your video before finally caving
crazy reveal at the end ahahah
I would only compare someone’s work to Harry Potter if I wanted to insult them. Nogstalgia is the ONLY reason people like those books. They have shallow characters, nonsensical worldbuilding, and flimsy stoytelling. So... maybe Powerless is the next Harry Potter 😂
No really LMAO because I watched the movies when I was younger and loved them then. But then I read the books last year and I still think about how bad the worldbuilding is, how bland the characters are, and how so much of the series aged like milk. Not to mention JK Rowling is awful lol
@@mrspreminger Aged like milk? In your imaginary world probably LOL
Ummm girlie I read it recently and I still actually loved it
Bold for you to assume that nostalgia is the ONLY factor
I've actually considered reading this series but I wasn't sure. There's been rumors of AI on the covers.
I've been doing research & reading the blurb. I was made aware of the book titles being the same as those other books but do agree it sounds more like fantasy. I do think that the character sounds common.
Utopian type world. Power system set-up. Not necessarily a bad thing because if it's a YA it would make sense.
Characters must have challenges in order for there to be an interesting plot.
Sounds like it's kinda a Hunger Games mix with other fantasy books (royalty, powers, authority sucks).
Thank you for talking about this.
hahaha "send me an arc-" "no don't."
the day sophie stops yappering is the day i unsubscribe ✋😔📢📢
1:32 -TZE 👊😌
Shower Thoughts 🙌 🎉🎉🎉🎉
This makes me hopeful that I can publish my own shower thoughts and become wildly successful... No, I'm sure Lauren Roberts is just NOT like other authors. Chosen one vibes ✨️ I can't wait to read Red Queen! 🤗 Hunger Games was one of my favorites back in the day. 👍I will say, the voice actor for Kye sounds so hot. 🤣🤣🤣 ✌️+❤
1:20:17 it's really just red queen rewritten
The reveal 😂😭 yap away queen!!!
I love your videos! Your bitchy attitude is so refreshing and is exactly how I sound after reading most books these days.
1:29:41 please don't apologise; this is my first video of yours and i immediately subscribed bcos you are too funny, don't stop yappping
I find it interesting that this book’s cover originally had the same font as the Lunar Chronicles covers (I think they changed it) and there’s also a prince named Kai in that series. Not saying it’s a rip-off of that but it just feels like there wasn’t an original thought in this book.
When I started reading this I thought, young elites, red queen, hunger games, the Ascension series (King Edric) 😅 caught in a love triangle with two royal brothers.
Yapping and make-up girlie queen
The bar is so low. She got her deal in part due to her social media presence
OMG I always wondered if I was the problem here. Am I too stupid to understand the book and the sense of the trials. But you proved me wrong, it’s just the bad writing of this book. 😍😭
this book was soooo hard to get into. ofc i was skeptical with reading it but i want to understand the hype around it. the writing was mediocre, the dialogue was cringy oh myy the forced sexual tension between paedyn and kai was so bad i cannot read it without cringing. the pacing was soooo slooooowww i was 25 chapters in and nothing interesting was happening because every bit was predictable. the characters are forgettable and bland, the only thing interesting about the paedyn is she has silver hair??? but everything else abt her was unoriginal. she's from the slums, a thief, and part of a rebellion? oh, thats somewhat familiar. plus there were scenes that was literally copied and pasted from the hunger games, especially the interview stuff before the ball and the trials. anw this book was not it and i def dnfed it
Actually what I got out of this is that I can generate a better story with chatgpt. Hitting up Sophie once I’ve edited and adapted the entire chatgpt conversation into a book
She isn't dead 🎉🎉🎉
I’m gonna be so real I’ve got nothing to say this time but I’m glad the Young Elites were mentioned. I read it when I was like 15 and I liked it and felt that a lot of future series ripped it off but I think that’s just cuz they’re all the same. Being left affected after an illness tho or getting powers that way is totally a rip of it.
I actually enjoyed this but full disclaimer, I read this at the same time i was reading haunting adeline and going on a trip. This was very tropey and predictable, but I still enjoyed it. That being said, I'm hella worried for the sequels.
My name is Niki and I got so scared
Have not read it yet but the Blurb kinda remind me of The Rose Society By Marie Lu Tho
What the hell are ppl talking about mimimi little Roberts was just 18. get the hell out of here. lol R.F. Kuang wrote the Poppy War when she was fcking 19.
I am not a member (yet) but! I am german lmao!
My first thought was "Is it from the same authress?"
Lol
Bin ich froh dieses Video gefunden zu haben
FINALLLYYYY Imy queen
Someone said that kai is similar to the male lead from we hunt the flame 😭
I´m german 🥰May I ask where you exactly come from (in Germany)?
let sophie read something fun 2024 lol
The silencers concept is literally copied from red queen (n name) I cant😭😭
Is 23:46 a wonderland system reference? Lmaooooo
Hola bella mujer, que cambiarias en el mundo
42:54 there’s no such thing as “my truth “, I think you meant your interpretation of what you remember.
1:10:25 mansplaining doesn’t exist, it’s just a regular explaining.
You know you’ve made it as an author when influencers make fun ranting videos like this about you. Also, is it wrong that your review kind of made me want to read Powerless more???😅
I get that people like to read simpler things rather than more complex writings, but i think there’s definitely a line 😭one dimensional copies with just the same recycled tropes gets annoying after a point.