Reckless

I loved this book! I would say it's my least favorite in the trilogy but that doesn't mean I didn't like it. There's not much plot BUT the banter was bantering and I am a sucker for that. I also just love Kai and Pae so I throughly enjoyed a book of the two of them threatening to k*ll each other but also flirting hard core. 4/5 ⭐️

Format: Audio App: AudibleTake Paedyn's silver dagger and drive it through my heart 😭My obsession for Kai & Kitt have only grown stronger through out the series but in very different ways. Kai... well he's my book boyfriend of my dreams. His growth as his characters journeys throughout the series is utterly breathtaking. Kitt, he's the book best friend & brother I didn't know I wanted. So misunderstood and kind but in a very suspicious way.The journey that Lauren Roberts takes on throughout the book will leave needing your fridge stalked up on ice cream, a Costco pack of tissues and your therapist on speed dial!Cannot say enough good things!

This series will keep you reading. Had trouble putting it down. My 82 year old mom and 12 year old granddaughter also loved it.

This trilogy is one of the best book series? I've read in decades. I could not put it down and was able to read all three books in about a week. It played in my mind like a movie.That is how well written it is. Absolutely recommend. Be prepared to miss out on sleep and work.

The tension between these two has me SWEATING and grinning at my kindle like a freaking weirdo in public. I can’t stop eating this story up and loving the dual points of view. I fear that Kai is my absolute man forever and I love him. How do I trick my husband into reading this and speaking like him (and my husband is the best already but gah dang Kai is a poet). Also I love the love triangle and I have hope for kitt. I love him too

Shock and freaking awe. I am stunned and speechless by the last chapter. This second book devoured my time and my mind until this last page left me wanting more, despising Kitt, crying for Paedyn and still hopelessly obsessed with Kai. Learning some of his secrets has only made me love him more!

This is my second time reading to prepare me for the final book! Can’t believe that it is just as good as the first time.

If you like angst, heartache, and a great story this is for you. Amidst all the drama this book has great characters, a great storyline and a gut wrenching ending. I loved this series and this book might’ve been my favorite one!

Reckless is an exciting and emotional follow-up to Powerless. The story picks up right where the first book ended, with Paedyn on the run and Kai torn between duty and his feelings for her. Their connection is intense and full of tension, which makes the story really hard to put down. Overall, I loved this book.

This is one of the books where you finish and just stare at a wall for 3 hours to process. Kai’s final chapter ripped me to shreds and tour my heart apart. Just when they can finally be together, Lauren throws in an unexpected plot twist to keep us on our toes. Waiting for book 3 will be the death of me.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🫑

If it wasn’t for Kitt I probably would give 5 stars. For the ending I should give two stars to be honest.

This was a reread for me, and it reminded me exactly why Reckless was one of my top books last year. The dynamic between Kai and Paedyn is everything—intense, emotional, and so clearly filled with love, even when circumstances push them apart.There were so many details I had forgotten, and experiencing them all over again made the story feel just as gripping as the first time. Even knowing what was coming, this book still finished me. The tension, the action, and the raw emotion hit just as hard, if not harder, on a reread.With Fearless releasing next week, I’m even more excited (and a little terrified) to see how this journey concludes. If you love a fast-paced, heart-wrenching romantasy with high stakes and unforgettable characters, this series is a must-read!

I’m really enjoying the complicated relationship between Kai and Paedyn. I will say some pieces of this one feel a little repetitive but overall I still really enjoyed this book! I think the relationship is going to be what makes this a strong series! While a fantasy the relationship does take center stage, but because of him being an Elite or being Ordinary, and the ending events in book 1, their relationship has disaster written all over it! I’m excited to see how it all plays out in book 3!

I enjoyed reckless. It was an easy read and kept me going. But I think I loved powerless a lot more. This book was a little repetitive which put me off. I didn’t devour it like I did the first book. But I still liked the characters and Kia and Paes yearning for each other.

I could not be more impressed with the writing of Lauren Roberts. The imagery, the pacing, the plot, the resolution, everything about her books in the Powerless series blows me away. And she's so young! The depth of her characters and their stories and the insights into life are beautiful.Reckless is the second book in the Powerless series and it brought tears to my eyes a few times. Paedyn, our FMC, is a fugitive following the events at the end of Powerless. Now she is on the run, trying to evade the enemy she fell for during the Purging trials. This is an enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers again story. You'll have whiplash in the BEST way.Side note: regarding the romance, the Powerless Trilogy is definitely young adult with only 1 chili pepper for the first two books. Mostly slow burn with endearing and sweet intimacy that builds through forced proximity and companionship versus a physically s3xual relationship on the page. I personally LOVE some spice in my books, so the fact that I DEVOURED these and could not put them down WITHOUT there being open page spice speaks volumes to the beauty of her writing. I'm not a writer myself, obviously, so I am struggling to express the quality of Lauren Roberts writing. But the story is just beautiful.Anyways, back to the plot. Lots of action and suspense throughout the book with Paedyn nearly dying MANY times. Kai... even though he's enemy number 1 in this book, I still LOVE him. I just want to give him all the hugs for the turmoil he has experienced in his life.Tropes: Enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, dual POVNow to the good stuff, my favorite quotes (these will be better reading than my writing above, lol):What is she without her fire fueling her? A shell of the Silver Savior she once was? The ghost of a girl I was willing to ruin myself for? If she fights for nothing she lives for death. But if she burns for something, she lives for hope.I want her to fight me.I want her to burn for me, even if it means with hatred.Funniest Forced Proximity, one-bed scene I've read. So the scene picks up after Paedyn has Kai turn around and not look while she changes."Can I turn around now?" I ask with a sigh when the bed creaks behind me."Shh, I'm trying to sleep."I spin to see her sprawled ato the quilt, the stolen gray shirt swallowing her whole. With arms and legs stretched wide, she attempts to take up as much of the bed as possible. The sight is so unexpected that I nearly choke on a laugh. "What is --""Sorry," she says, her eyes closed and lips crooked. "There's no more room on the bed.""I can see that, " I respond dryly.Home.The word stings my eyes, burns in my throat, just as the smoke had when I escaped the fiery fragments of my childhood. Each one of my homes is gone - my father, my Adena, my house on the corner of Merchant and Elm.She looks at me, shocked. And then she smiles, bright and big like the night sky hanging above us.I fear she could rival the stars.Lenny shakes his head. "You are a little cockroach, you know that?""Plagues," I snort. "You really know what a girl wants to hear, don't you?""No, I mean, I'm convinced you can survive anything.""Yeah, well, I'm convinced that becoming a curse," I say quietly."UGH. ALL of page 189.But here's a little..."I don't regret it." His words are a rush, a confession he's clung to. "I don't regret you, or what was between us. And I don't regret kissing you on that roof. But I know I'll regret what I have to do to you for the rest of my life."... "Do you regret it?" he asks, voice urgent...."I..." My hands find his arms, cupping his wrists. "I regret not doing it right. And I regret not being what I'm supposed to be.".... several sentences laterDeath emboldens. The end initiates...."Pretend," I whisper against his lips.I am recklessness incarnet. Until the very end.His next words mirror the ones whispered after placing me atop his feet to dance beside the firelight. "Let me swim for the both of us." -#swoonOut here I am Kai and nothing more." His throat bobs. "Out here I am powerless. A monster without an ability to hide behind. An Enforcer free from his masks.

Hands down the only reason to read this book, the MMC, Kai. Each and every word that comes out of his mouth is just perfection.This book, for the most part, felt unnecessary. It is what many of us want in a book, more detail, but infrequently get. And once we do, we are not so sure that is what we wanted. It was mainly an entire relationship build between Kai and Pae. The repetition got old. But they were consistently in denial until the end.But Kai saves this book from being a 3 star to closer to a 4 star. Because he just is one of the best MMCs I’ve read in a while!I do hope book 3 brings a bit more plot with the relationship building and for the love, I hope Kai gets his HEA!Spice 0/5🌶️ kissing onlyOverall 4/5⭐️

I’m invested, I need to know what happens in the final book. This book made me say to myself at the end “Yes! It’s about dang time…Then wait whhhaaaat!?!” If you enjoy banter this series is for you, especially this book! There wasn’t as much story building, but I felt like maybe there was a little more action. It was a bit repetitive but it helped establish the climatic moment to be all that it was. There were some new discovers to keep the story going. But all in all I think this wasn’t a plot oriented book but more so focused on the main characters. I am team Kai and Pae all the way, and the baddass in Pae truly came to light. Interested to see what happens next.

Lauren Roberts.. my heart was finally whole! Kai and Pae were finally acknowledging their feelings for one another. They are end game. Not with this cliffhanger though!The only thing I’m thankful for is that I waited so close to the release of Fearless to read Reckless… because this is not okay. I’m not okay.I had a sneaking suspicion that this was how Reckless was going to end, but I kept thinking “no that can’t be true, that can’t possibly be how this ends” … welp I was sadly mistaken. I cannot wait to see how the rest of this story plays out!Just some more thoughts..Pae doesn’t want you Kitt.. can’t you just accept that?? Also, is this your way of punishing Kai for disobeying this kings orders? Hmm..it’s giving mad king energy.

Rating: 4|5 ⭐I just have say that I am obsessed with Pae and Kai. Like they are my endgame, and I will not take any slander upon them. Lauren could write a whole other book with just their banter, and I would EAT it up. However, declaring my love of those two can't just be the only thing that I loved and didn't love throughout this whole book, even as much as I wish it was.I've seen plenty of reviews of this book, because I finally finished it after an eternity. And the general consensus is that there are mixed reviews all around. With which I am tending to agree with on both sides. One of the biggest problems with this book, that most people have seemed to agree upon, is that this book lacks the plot that the previous book had to it. Which is definitely true, and nothing REALLY went on in this book that really changed the trajectory of the story in any way that was significant. However, without that, we as readers were given a more personal lens to see the relationship between Pae and Kai blossom. And I'm here for it honestly.I also have seen that people were either torn about the ending. With some people guessing from the very first POV of Kitt to not really knowing until it was revealed at the end. I do have to say for myself, I saw the ending coming from a mile away, I was just confused on why it was going to happen. Although, we don't get an answer to that question quite yet, there are some really interesting theories about it, so I can't wait till Fearless comes out and we get answers to our questions.Overall, my opinion about this book is nothing but positive and I enjoyed seeing Pae and Kai together with this will they, won't they when they definitely should vibe going on. The tension, the banter and the romance had me swooning; but then again, I'm a hopeless romantic at heart. If you've loved the story line so far in the series (from Powerless to Powerful) and you don't mind some heavy romance with little plot in this book, I recommend a read of it. I'm hoping that it is setting us up for some big moments in the next book.Enjoy Readers! <3

So I hated this book because there is no plot line and the writing is so so repetitive. Like we get it, theyre so down bad for each other but its wrong for them to be together so they pretend. I hope to never read that word again haha. the first book was really good. I loved the writing and the tension and the plot. I see a lot of people hating on having kai's perspective included, but that made it so much better. he was written super well. the second book was kinda disappointing, and then they randomly kissed each other (it seems out of place in that sentence but thats how it was in the book too). plus kitt is so unhinged which is fine but if I were a brother I would not be out here stealing my brother's girl whether or not I was literally insane from grief and betrayal. I haven't really read any fanfics but this was kinda like one, just missing jackson wang lol. The addition of ava was super unnecessary and it felt super awkard. I hated how the same words kept on being repeated. I think everyone should know by now that paedyn thinks kai is insufferable.ANYWAYS besides all that I enjoyed kitt's character development, I honestly feel so bad for him because he doesnt deserve what he has coming to him. I don’t want him to be the villain but I think it will make the third book worth reading just for the plotline. Paedyn's dad's journal was literally the key the non existent plotline. it was such a good detail to add. there were some cute scenes, i just got tired of seeing them repeated. I loved how paedyn just kept on trying to escape, I found it really funny. it was great how both characters were able to overcome challenges and grow together.ive heard people say this series is basically a copy of other ones, but I havent read them so I don’t really care about that. the first book was just so good and reckless was kind of a let down after all that, but I will still read the third book. powerful was also really good. I actually cried because you start reading it knowing it wont end happily, but it was written really well. I wanted makoto to appear in reckless, I think that would have been better than randomly throwing ava and abigail in.overall, many mixed feelings about this book. something just doesnt sit right with me about it. of course, its not like the author can change the book now, but I needed to rant after what ive been through. still don’t know if I hate it or like it.