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irregularrogue 's review for:
Renegades
by Marissa Meyer
This was pretty cheesy. Being about superheroes I think it just ran with that and went full comic book cheese.
Which is odd since comic books aren't necessarily cheesy. So instead of leaning into the potential here and giving us danger, grit, coping with day to day, responsibility for a city becoming overly dependent on you in spite that not being what the goal was we get Megamind and Metroman satire sounding banter.
It isn't terrible. There were things I liked. Things I found interesting. But then certain things would crop up and make me cringe like why would you do this in an actual book? It's as if it was going in hard on what the superhero and comic book genre stereotype is, and it felt out of place in an actual book.
Why do we have a faction of villains, known villains, who live in the subway tunnels? Why do they refer to themselves as villains? Furthermore, why are you letting known villains run around pretty much unchecked when they have the power to make poisons and bombs? They do check on them I suppose but it's more like we sent a teenage team of bullies to do it, and they don't really check all that well anyway.
For the most part though I enjoyed it in spite of everything. I think that's more for Adrian and the rest of his team. I found Nova however to just grate my nerves.
Which is odd since comic books aren't necessarily cheesy. So instead of leaning into the potential here and giving us danger, grit, coping with day to day, responsibility for a city becoming overly dependent on you in spite that not being what the goal was we get Megamind and Metroman satire sounding banter.
It isn't terrible. There were things I liked. Things I found interesting. But then certain things would crop up and make me cringe like why would you do this in an actual book? It's as if it was going in hard on what the superhero and comic book genre stereotype is, and it felt out of place in an actual book.
Why do we have a faction of villains, known villains, who live in the subway tunnels? Why do they refer to themselves as villains? Furthermore, why are you letting known villains run around pretty much unchecked when they have the power to make poisons and bombs? They do check on them I suppose but it's more like we sent a teenage team of bullies to do it, and they don't really check all that well anyway.
For the most part though I enjoyed it in spite of everything. I think that's more for Adrian and the rest of his team. I found Nova however to just grate my nerves.