Powerless
- Published
- 7 November 2023
- Pages
- 600
- ISBN-13
- 9798987380406
- Type
- novel
About this book
Powerless is the novel that opens Lauren Roberts's Powerless series, published in November 2023. It's followed here by Powerful. It's the natural place to begin the series, which ran to completion between 2023 and 2025 across 5 books.
Key facts about Powerless
Lauren Roberts wrote Powerless, a novel on our list. It has been out since 7 November 2023. The book has 600 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9798987380406 to find the main one.
Powerless is book 1 of 5 in the Powerless series. The series has 5 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Fearful is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 2 September 2025.
That series sits on our young adult dystopian romance shelf. Meanwhile, Fearful is the latest published Lauren Roberts book on file, from 2 September 2025.
About Lauren Roberts
Lauren Roberts is one of BookTok's biggest publishing success stories: she started writing Powerless at eighteen in 2020, self-published it in November 2023 under her TikTok handle @laurenrobertslibrary, and watched it go viral fast enough to land a deal with Simon & Schuster within months. She was still in her early twenties when it became a New York Times bestseller and a full-blown BookTok phenomenon. See every Lauren Roberts book in order.
Its place in Powerless
Powerless is book 1 in the Powerless series. It is followed by Powerful. See the full Powerless reading order.
In the kingdom of Ilya, society is split between Elites, born with supernatural abilities, and Ordinaries, who have none -- and whom the crown has spent years quietly eliminating. Paedyn Gray is an Ordinary who has survived by hiding in plain sight, and when she's swept into the Purging Trials, a brutal royal competition meant to showcase Elite power, she has to fake an ability she doesn't have while competing against people who could kill her the moment they learn the truth. Two Elite princes complicate things…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781665954884
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781398529489
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9798987380406