Renegade

by Cambria Hebert

[Angie]

Renegade is a slightly better sequel, but still a disappointing ending. Heven, Sam, and Company are back to school, but evil is still underfoot. They’ve also filled in Heven’s grandmother about what’s going on, because some events are essentially happening in her own backyard. Then she tells them what she knows, and everything makes much more sense. But simply knowing what’s really going on, isn’t going to help them defeat Beezlebub and his minions.

Renegade has quite a bit going on. Of course, there’s Heven versus Hell and her romance with Sam. They’re still super sweet and lovey dovey. But there’s two more romances that get quite a bit of page time, but didn’t really need to. There was Cole and Gemma, whom we knew about from last time, but I still think that came out of freaking nowhere. Then there’s Riley and Ana, who I did like. They’d have a super interesting story if they had gotten their own book rather than a few pages here and there.

On top of all that, there’s Kimber. Kimber is the absolute worst and I was so sick of her just doing something because she feels betrayed then screwing up and being all like “I didn’t know! I didn’t mean to do that!” Well she would have known if she’d listen when people try to talk to her! I’m so glad that Heven had a “I’m so over this bitch” moment. Although I do have to wonder what happened to her in the end. Hopefully she’s roasting in Hell.

The big finale was underwhelming. Renegade was building up to this big showdown with Beezlebub and it all kind of fizzled out for me. I mean, Satan helped them. He came out of nowhere and was like “Hey, I’m a cool dude, I’ll help. I’m not totally evil.” Um…yeah, okay. Then everyone lived happily ever after, as expected. Well, almost everyone because of death. But being a paranormal series means that death isn’t always a bad thing.

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