Renegades (Renegades Trilogy, #1)

by Marissa Meyer

This book was very difficult to go through. I simply hated it in the beginning. I did not care for any of the characters, I did not care for their powers, and I did not care for the very obvious romance that was about to happen. The beginning was slow, boring, and it was full of superhero clichés. Half of the lines seemed as if they came right out of the most generic comic books Marissa Meyer could find.
However, the story got so much better halfway through the book. Suddenly it was action-packed, the characters got more interesting, there were more plotlines and mysteries. Things finally started happening. I still did not care a lot about Adrian, however, I did start to love Nova and understand her a lot better than any other character in this story. The superhero clichés were gone, or at least less frequent, and the story took off.
I do believe this book could have been a lot better if either the beginning was completely rewritten once Marissa Meyer was more into the story, such that the clichés were not as frequent, or if the beginning was shortened. I wanted to DNF this book a couple of times, and in the end, I am glad I did not. However, if I would ever reread it, I would just look for the most important information in the beginning and not go through that boring journey again.

I will be continuing this series, one day. The ending was great, but the whole theme of the book seemed to be foreign territory for Marissa Meyer. Once she was used to it, the book became a lot better. I definitely think the Lunar Chronicles was a lot better than this series.