Renegades (Renegades Trilogy, #1)

by Marissa Meyer

As champions of justice, the Renegades remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone, except the villains they once overthrew. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance.

• ISBN10: 1250044669
• ISBN13: 9781250044662
• Publish Date: 7 November 2017
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: St Martin's Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 576
• Language: English

Reviews

[liz089]

Finally finished it XD That took way too long...

it is not that I completely disliked it, I really enjoyed the world of superheroes and villians, and it had an awesome plottwist at the end (that I kind of saw coming.. but it is still an interesting development).
But overall, I just did not get into it. it was kind of generic and the MC's did not really do it for me... I forced myself to finish this one and that is never good.

So 2.5 stars, and I am hoping for a better sequel.

[Kelly]

I'm not into traditional superheroes or people in capes.
DNF unfortunately.

[Ashley]

Holy fuck, that ending!!!

[cornerfolds]

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If you've followed my reviews for awhile, then you know I love Marissa Meyer! The Lunar Chronicles was one of the first YA series that I followed from beginning to end and Heartless is easily in my top five retellings. Combine my love of this author with my love of superhero movies (okay, really just Marvel movies) and I was SO excited when I heard about Renegades! Unfortunately, it turned out to be a little bit of a letdown.

Renegades is a heroes versus villains story. Nova is an anarchist, one of the villains, and has good reasons for being one. Not only was she born into it, but the Renegades failed her as a child when she needed them most. Adrian is a Renegade, also by birthright. I really loved both of these characters! I could totally sympathize with Nova's reasons for seeking vengeance and wanted to see her succeed. At the same time, I really loved Adrian's sense of moral duty, which could have easily been annoying but never reached that level, thankfully. And for you romance haters, there really isn't much here to annoy you!

I also did enjoy the other heroes and villains, but thought that everyone aside from the main characters was kind of over-the-top one dimensional. Everyone was super good or super evil and there wasn't much in between. For a story set in a world similar to our own, I wish the secondary characters had been a bit more believable.

Speaking of the world, I wish there had been more to it. Everything in Renegades is confined to one city and, although other cities are briefly mentioned, I never felt like I had a good idea about the world and how it came to be in its current state. Reading this book kind of felt like playing a closed world video game, to be honest. I know that Marissa Meyer is capable of incredible world building and I really hope she shows us a bit more of this world in future books because it has potential to be amazing!

Like the characters, the plot was pretty bland and predictable. Villain seeks revenge, villain finds out not everything is black and white. Honestly, the story wasn't terrible, but I think it suffered from being way, way too drawn out. Renegades could have been about 250 pages shorter and still have accomplished everything that happened in the story. A major problem I had with this book is that, while the world isn't very description-heavy, everything else is way too drawn out. Details I didn't care to know are included while details that could've made the story better were left out.

Overall, I thought Renegades was just okay, and maybe that's because I had such high expectations. The main characters were fantastic and the story was interesting, but the pacing was unbearably slow and the world building left a lot to be desired. There was also a ridiculous cliffhanger at the end that I'm sure a lot of people would hate! I'll probably wait until the audiobook is available for Renegades 2. I'm still interested to see how the story continues.

Actual rating: 2.5 stars

[ellieroth]

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Original de: El Blog del Gato - El Extraño Gato del Cuento

hubo una razón muy, muy incontrolable para Marissa Meyer que me hizo no poder tomarme del todo muy en serio el libro, Will & Grace regresó a la TV y esto pasa en uno de sus episodios:



Fuera de broma y en la parte positiva del libro, Renegades es un libro entretenido, es inclusivo, hay un Renegade con discapacidad física visible, lo cual se me hizo bastante agradable de leer, y en realidad, Nova, es una especie de metáfora sobre discapacidad. O al menos eso quiero creer.

Marissa Meyer trae la premisa sobre que pasa luego que los buenos vencen a los malos, cuál con los Tratados de Sokovia, no todo es tan de flores y muchos colores, en lo personal no estuve un 100% satisfecha con la historia, incluso pensar ahora en el libro me pone un poco tensa por todas las oportunidades donde los villanos pudieron haber usado un poco más la cabeza. Supongo que la escritora se está guardando todo para los siguientes libros.



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[Nessa Luna]

Holy shit yes.

[lizarodz]

Quite the Novel Idea http://quitethenovelidea.com http://quitethenovelidea.com/blog-tour-review-bookmarks-and-giveaway-renegades-by-marissa-meyer/Well, please don't shoot to kill, but this is my very first book by Meyer.  There, I said it.  Now, I've owned Cinder since forever, but never actually read any of her books before.  I feel awful too because I've meet her before and she's the sweetest person ever.  Well, let me just say that Renegades lived up to the hype and then some.

"Do you have what it takes?" 

I've always loved superheroes.  I was the kind of geeky teenager that read comics and watched superheroes movies and series.  I adore all of Marvel and DC movies about it now as an adult, so it's not surprising that I jumped head first into the adventure that it's Renegades.

The story takes place in Gatlon City, where Ace Anarchy revels on the treatment received by the prodigies - people with abilities.  On the wake of this revolution, the 10 years of the Age of Anarchy the world was in chaos.  The government, laws, and the economy crumbled, leaving desperation, crime and suffering in its wake.  The Renegades raised to the task as the superheros people needed.  Trying to fix a broken world and give it hope and order.  This is the world in which the Anarchists now live in fear.

Nova is Ace's nice and she has reason to hate the Renegades.  She was raised by Anarchists and now goes by the name of Nightmare.  She has train all her life to be an Anarchist and fight the status quo.  She's agile, smart, an inventor, she has perfect aim and she doesn't need to sleep.  In order to bring the organization from within she takes extremes measures. 

Adrian is the adopted son of Captain Chromium and Dread Warden, after her own superhero mom died.  He's a handsome, strong and tall African American with a superpower of sketching things into being.  He's good to the bone, he wants to do good, be the superhero that the world needs, be a good leader and be better.  He also takes matters into his own hand to make himself a better hero. 

"Heroism wasn't about what you could do, it was about what you did."

There are so many characters in this book!  The Council of five that now governs the city that are celebrities now, the  

The world building is SO good.  Every detail has been thought out and planned to the tee. The plot is well developed, with enough action, twists and turns too keep the reader always interested and turning page after page.  The pace is a bit slow at times, but makes it up in the action scenes in spades.

I can see that both the Anarchists and the Renegades make good points, but I'm not sure I agree with the way they want things done. I don't think that the Renegades can keep going as they are either. 

"One cannot be brave who has no fear"

After all that gushing you might ask, why the 4.5 stars review.  I shall tell you guy my dear readers.  It was the ending that did it.  It was a bit of a cliffhanger and a big shock for sure.  That being said, I cannot wait for the next book, even if the excruciating of a one year wait starts now.   This review was originally posted on Quite the Novel Idea

[Briana @ Pages Unbound]

Readers know from The Lunar Chronicles and Heartless that Marissa Meyer is a master of writing fantasy.  In Renegades she proves she can also write superheroes and science fiction.  The book is somewhat of an inverse take on Steelheart (Brandon Sanderson), exploring what happens when humanity suddenly gains superpowers; in Steelheart, the villains take over the world, but in Renegades, the heroes win.  But the twist that really makes Renegades worth reading is that sometimes the heroes don’t seem to act like heroes at all.

Meyers books are interesting in that the plots tend to be painfully obvious, yet also imbues a level of nuance into her books that is frequently lacking in other young adult novels.  (Sorry, I love YA…but it’s true.)  In Renegades, she explore the idea that both the heroes and the villains may have valid philosophical viewpoints—and also briefly the fact that ordinary humans don’t seem to have much of a say in the new society at all.

The book is written in two points of view.  One is Nova’s, an Anarchist (“villain”) who has decided to infiltrate the ranks of the Renegades.  The other is Adrian’s, a Renegade (“hero”) through and through.  Meyer skillfully develops the characters in such a way that readers will find themselves sympathizing with both, and I have to admit my admiration for an author who can make me see the point of view of a character willing to plan the assassination of her society’s leader.

The plot, too, is interesting.  I have seen some reviews to the effect that Renegades is “slow paced” or even “boring,” which had me concerned before I started reading for myself.  Personally, I never thought the book was slow, and I enjoyed reading about Nova’s infiltration of her enemy’s ranks and the various missions she is assigned to—from both the Anarchists and the Renegades.

The tone of the book is different because it’s a take on superheroes rather than fairy tales, but overall I think Renegades stands up to Meyers’s previous work, and I’m looking forward to reading the sequel.