Lauren Roberts Audiobooks

Reckless: a Powerless Trilogy instalment with thousands of young adult listeners behind it

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

7,232 listener ratings

Who is Lauren Roberts?

Seven thousand ratings is not a quiet arrival. Reckless came into our catalogue already carrying listener numbers that most young adult titles never reach, and that alone tells you where Lauren Roberts sits: firmly inside the conversation, with an audience that turns up on publication day.

The work belongs to The Powerless Trilogy, and a trilogy sets its own terms. The audience arrives already invested, the stakes have to keep climbing, and every instalment is judged against the ones around it as much as on its own merits. Eleven and a half hours gives the writing the room that kind of pressure demands.

Lauren Roberts in audiobooks

Cecily Bednar Schmidt narrates across eleven hours and twenty-four minutes, and the score holds at four and a bit stars with a listener base running into the thousands. An average that survives that much scrutiny is worth considerably more than a higher figure resting on a dozen opinions.

The obvious advice with any trilogy is to take it in sequence, since stories of this shape spend their capital on payoff and reward the listener who has done the groundwork. Young adult listeners who follow a series properly will need no persuading. Have a look at what is listed below.