This was a good fast paced book! Great for the YA & fantasy lover! Lots of action and chaos from the get go. Thank you for this ARC!

This book is great for young adults and preteens. There is alot of action. This story reminds me of hunger games and divergence set in a dystopia world.

This is a fast‑moving romantic suspense featuring strong faith-based themes. We follow a spirited heroine on the lam—running from danger, grappling with her past, and finding unexpected support (and maybe something more) from a determined hero. It’s action-packed, heartfelt, and layered with redemption.

What works:

Fast pace and tension: From the first chapters, you're sucked into a chase that never really eases up—keeps you glued.

Strong emotional core: The faith element isn’t just window dressing—it drives her choices and gives emotional heft.

Chemistry that counts: The hero–heroine dynamic strikes a good balance between attraction, banter, and mutual respect.

What could improve:

A couple of the twists feel predictable—some readers might see them coming.

Secondary characters sometimes fade into the background, and you wish you knew more about them.

Bottom line:
A solid pick for fans of Christian suspense with romance—if you're into fast-paced chases, emotional growth, and a hopeful message, this one delivers. It doesn’t reinvent the genre, but it does everything it sets out to do cleanly and compellingly.

3 stars

This is one of those books where I kept wondering: do I actually like it, or am I just pushing through because I got the ARC?

Fantasy is my favorite genre, but this one didn’t really hook me. If it wasn’t an ARC, I probably would have stopped reading early on. The pacing felt slow and dragged in parts, though it was still readable overall. The writing is simple and easy to follow, but it didn’t connect with me emotionally.

I didn’t feel very invested in the characters or the plot. The storyline, escape, join the resistance, go on a mission, was stretched out with a lot of unnecessary detail, and I found it hard to stay engaged. I can see the potential, but it just didn’t quite land for me.

That said, the ending was actually pretty solid! A decent cliffhanger, though not one that has me eagerly anticipating the next book. If I come across the sequel, I’ll read it, but I’m not waiting on it anxiously.

I'd give it a 1.5 if I could, but between 1 and 2 I'll be generous and say 2 because to me there are some very nice things in this book. I like Josh's character, he seems pretty well defined and different from the rest. The magic is fun, there are different powers and the fact some seem to be common for everyone, while others are fully individual and others are shared among groups (Conquest has signaling for example) is quite creative, and allows for many combinations. I think the world in general has some great potential too. The book is consistent with some details like character's habits, which I really liked, and even secondary characters are seen as powerful which I like but this is a downside too (explained later).

Unfortunatedly, there are way more bad things for me and some are pretty important. I was thinking about hiding all the review for spoilers but... there's none, because there's barely any plot, but I'll get to that.

First of all there's no info about the world at all, forget world-building, there's not even a little "we're in this country/planet and the Fireburst have been creating destruction for the last X years" and that made it really hard for me to care about anything because I lacked so much information. Why are the Fireburst causing so much destruction? This is even more important since they are described as very logical, and characters don't even consider this point. There's barely any information about the divisions, and it's a shame, it'd have made the book way more interesting for me. I also really didn't like how the information was delivered sometimes. Partially because they repeated information I already knew while leaving other information out, but also because some information is delivered almost at the end when there are chances to give it in a very natural way earlier.

The second thing that made me dislike the book the most is the lack of plot. I think this book feels like reading the second act of a story, the training arc. The ending is okay but I don't like finishing in a cliffhanger and due to the rest of the book it doesn't motivate me to keep reading the series, but rather the opposite.

Then there are many details that slowly but surely bothered me more and more about the book. While even secondary characters seem powerful, the protagonists are clearly the chosen ones, the ones that can't lose a single fight, at most they'll tie, and due to the lack of information they don't sound that experienced to justify this against people that it's said have a lot of training. They also recover from traumatic stuff overnight (literaly) and behave like nothing happened when they have been tortured for weeks. It made it feel so unrealistic to me, and I understand it's a Young Adult book, but I'd have liked it more if they were held for just a couple of days so it's more real that they are okay so fast. Also, to me every character sounded the same except Josh, and maybe Walter. The rest all seem like they are joking and bantering all the time and maybe that's why they all sounded so similar to me.

While there are other details and things I disliked I think this gives a good overview of the book and my experience reading it.

Why so short?!? This would have been a 5 star apart from the writing feeling clunky and unnecessarily descriptive and also being super short, it was a fab read and I needed more

‘ More Than Conquerors’ is a gripping and intense YA fantasy that pulls you right into the chaos from the very first page. It’s a raw, emotional rollercoaster that explores survival, resilience, and the desperate will to keep fighting even when everything seems lost. The writing is vivid and powerful, making you feel every ounce of pain, fear, and determination that Sophie, Josh, and Jules endure. The characters are flawed and relatable, struggling with trauma while trying to hold on to the fragile hope that keeps them moving forward. The dystopian setting is both terrifying and fascinating, filled with danger at every turn, and the world-building is immersive without feeling overwhelming. It does a fantastic job of keeping you on edge while also offering glimpses of humanity and unity amidst the chaos. It’s intense, gripping, and impossible to put down. I will definitely be waiting for the next instalment.