SuitabookPowerless
Lauren Roberts
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in around the Trials and torture scenes; the story also addresses discrimination and loss, which may prompt further conversation.
- Themes
- Discrimination against Ordinaries: Ordinaries are persecuted for lacking magical powers, and Paedyn’s struggle to survive brings her into conflict with the kingdom’s ruling order. The persecution is presented as unjust and worth resisting, rather than as a neutral feature of the kingdom.
- The Purging Trials: The Trials pit participants against one another, with bloody injuries and deaths, while characters justify violence as part of the competition. The Trials’ bloody injuries and deaths sit alongside characters’ justifications for violence as part of the competition.
- Worth knowing
- Expect frequent bloody injuries, deaths and torture, alongside references to suicide capsules and past persecution. Romance includes kissing and intimate touching; there is also heavy drinking, moderate profanity and a panic attack.