Fearless

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death.

Fearless is the third and final installment in Lauren Roberts’s young adult romantasy series The Powerless Trilogy. The novel is preceded by Powerless (2023) and Reckless (2024) and continues the story of the main characters, Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer. The trilogy first rose to popularity on “BookTok” on TikTok, where Roberts gained a following for her initially self-published version of Powerless. Simon & Schuster has since purchased the rights to the trilogy and reissued all three titles.

In Powerless, Roberts introduces the fantastical world of Ilya. In this fictional realm, a widespread disease (referred to as the Plague) has imbued some citizens with magical powers but not others. The surviving magical citizens are referred to as the Elites, while the surviving powerless citizens are known as the Ordinaries.

Convinced that the Ordinaries will infect and destroy the Elites, the Elite ruling class and the royal family have segregated Ilya. Paedyn is an Ordinary, but her father, Adam Gray, has raised her to be observant, a skill that she’s honed so well that she can pose as a Psychic (an Elite with mind-reading powers).