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Renegades by Marissa Meyer
4.0
Representation: Side Asian character, biracial main character
Trigger warnings: Death of parents, near-death experiences, death of a sister, death of a child, gun violence, blood depiction, fire, explosions, building collapse, persecution, murder, death from a fall
Read this review for context: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5536459986
6.5/10, originally I was going to read Cinder as my first book from this author but someone else got it before I could so I settled on this. After reading an epic YA fantasy book that left me wanting more I decided to go for a different kind of book so I picked this sci-fi read up and the concept being about a city with superheroes and supervillains didn't seem like the most original concept ever and I was right, even though I tried to enjoy this it just felt like a slow burn and alongside the other issues I'm not in the mood yet to read the next two books in the series. I will however give this author a second chance to see if I can enjoy some of her other books or not. Where do I even begin? It starts with a little bit of worldbuilding explaining how prodigies were persecuted for so long then the anarchists rose and ruined the whole world until some people came called "Renegades" and stopped them then it cuts to the main character Nova Artino or Nova for short and she was only a child back then, she was living her life until the villains came, she hoped the Renegades would come but they never did thus her parents and sister were killed; after that it just cuts to present day and that's where the first problems emerge, first off is the worldbuilding, it's not as detailed as the last book I read since it left me a few questions like where did these prodigies come from, were they like experiments or were they just born with powers, I don't know and second of all are the characters, I couldn't relate to them since they didn't experience any development, the writing style felt like it was info-dumpy? Also that one plot twist was predictable, I saw it coming. Nova is part of the Anarchists whose mission is to kill the Renegades and they took down one and almost killed Captain Chromium, caused some chaos but other than that what was the point of that, most likely to make a statement.
The other main character is Adrian Everhart or Adrian for short and he is on the Renegades team and after seeing Nova he wants to find him and he is also the Sentinel but how come no one else knew, after that not much happens for a while and I got to see Nova and Adrian live their lives until Nova decides to apply as a Renegade to spy on them to bring them down later on, that was successful. Afterwards I felt that the book was building tension over the latter half and some scenes were interesting like when Max finally put Nova to sleep even though she's supposed to never sleep but the payoff was so frustrating to read since it was what, a romance shoehorned in and a battle scene ending this in a cliffhanger. That's it I guess.
Trigger warnings: Death of parents, near-death experiences, death of a sister, death of a child, gun violence, blood depiction, fire, explosions, building collapse, persecution, murder, death from a fall
Read this review for context: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5536459986
6.5/10, originally I was going to read Cinder as my first book from this author but someone else got it before I could so I settled on this. After reading an epic YA fantasy book that left me wanting more I decided to go for a different kind of book so I picked this sci-fi read up and the concept being about a city with superheroes and supervillains didn't seem like the most original concept ever and I was right, even though I tried to enjoy this it just felt like a slow burn and alongside the other issues I'm not in the mood yet to read the next two books in the series. I will however give this author a second chance to see if I can enjoy some of her other books or not. Where do I even begin? It starts with a little bit of worldbuilding explaining how prodigies were persecuted for so long then the anarchists rose and ruined the whole world until some people came called "Renegades" and stopped them then it cuts to the main character Nova Artino or Nova for short and she was only a child back then, she was living her life until the villains came, she hoped the Renegades would come but they never did thus her parents and sister were killed; after that it just cuts to present day and that's where the first problems emerge, first off is the worldbuilding, it's not as detailed as the last book I read since it left me a few questions like where did these prodigies come from, were they like experiments or were they just born with powers, I don't know and second of all are the characters, I couldn't relate to them since they didn't experience any development, the writing style felt like it was info-dumpy? Also that one plot twist was predictable, I saw it coming. Nova is part of the Anarchists whose mission is to kill the Renegades and they took down one and almost killed Captain Chromium, caused some chaos but other than that what was the point of that, most likely to make a statement.
The other main character is Adrian Everhart or Adrian for short and he is on the Renegades team and after seeing Nova he wants to find him and he is also the Sentinel but how come no one else knew, after that not much happens for a while and I got to see Nova and Adrian live their lives until Nova decides to apply as a Renegade to spy on them to bring them down later on, that was successful. Afterwards I felt that the book was building tension over the latter half and some scenes were interesting like when Max finally put Nova to sleep even though she's supposed to never sleep but the payoff was so frustrating to read since it was what, a romance shoehorned in and a battle scene ending this in a cliffhanger. That's it I guess.