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Fearless is the last book in the Powerless Trilogy. Lauren Roberts delivers a thick book to give the fans who have come to love her characters plenty of time before the conclusion. Paedyn accepts the marriage proposal from Kitt to ensure his vision of ordinaries being allowed back into the kingdom without fear of more killings. However, Kai and Paedyn fully realize how much they love each other, so marrying the wrong brother adds angst and drama to the plot.
There are several plot holes throughout the book, but they are resolved in consecutive big reveals that keep changing the landscape of the timeline, plot, and what you thought you had figured out. We have some flashbacks into King Edric’s life that change everything, and a cough throughout from Kitt also hints at how it will all end, but the why is surprising.
The resolution to Mak’s storyline was underused after his strong introduction in the novella, Powerful. Kitt doesn’t act like himself. While that gets explained, it also feels like he was done dirty just to keep the drama of Paedyn and Kai going. Throughout, I wondered why he was forcing her into another set of trials and why he would let his beloved brother suffer by marrying his love. Callum, as a mind reader, also didn’t make sense for much of the book, because if he cared about them, then couldn’t he read the anguish Paedyn and Kai were experiencing, yet, didn’t try to change course. We meet a faraway Queen who knows things she shouldn’t, which never gets explained, but it does make me wonder if it is setting her up for a companion series.
I enjoyed the story because I love Paedyn and Kai, and the established world. However, the many plot twists felt like the author thought of all the ways to resolve the story and create drama, and instead of going with one of the things, decided to go with all of the things, which made it start to feel cumbersome and break the believability established in the other books.
I listened to part of the story with an audiobook. The narrators did a great job. I was also impressed that when they were in dialogue with the opposite gender, they did well with those voices, so there was no disruption when listening. The portion of the book told through Kitt’s letters stood out as particularly well done in the voice, tone, and cadence to reveal his mental state. The way the strikethroughs were portrayed was more poignant than just reading the print version.