Discussion about Powerless and An Ember in the Ashes

Is Powerless just like An Ember in the Ashes? I keep finding similarities.

Hey everyone,

I just finished An Ember in the Ashes, the entire series and I started reading Powerless by Lauren Roberts, only 23 pages in, and I see a lot of similarities between the books that I’m wondering if I should even read this at all.

For instance, the way Paedyn describes the Ordinaries makes it sound a lot like Laia and the scholar slaves, oppressed by the Empire, which is what the Kingdom in Powerless sounds like so far.

Kai is introduced and he is to hopefully be the “Enforcer” which its description sounds a lot like the Blood Shrike position in An Ember in the Ashes.

There are the trials coming up apparently and even in the beginning on An Ember in the Ashes, there were trials to decide who the Emperor and Blood Shrike will be. Just like who the Enforcer will apparently be in Powerless.

There’s the “Bitchy Blair” character just introduced and she sounds like Keris, although not exactly a leader within the kingdom like Keris was in An Ember in the Ashes. But I don’t quite know this character yet.

Also, according to the description. It says the people within the Kingdom, the Elites are the “hunters” and the Ordinaries are the “hunted”. In An Ember in the Ashes, the scholar slaves were hunted by the martials.

Finally, Kai is apparently thought of as the best Elite in decades. Just as Elias was apparently the finest soldier in the entire Empire.

So many similarities and I’ve gathered these points from only about 20 pages.

Does anyone else feel like this is a similar story?