RENEGADES

RENEGADES (Book 1 in the Renegades Trilogy) by Marissa Meyer

YELLOW LIGHT

AGE: 9th Grade - College Age

My daughter recently saw that I had Marissa Meyer's brand-new release, The Escape Game in my TBR pile. She asked me if I had ever read Renegades. It's not that Renegades has anything to do with The Escape Game, it's just that overall she really liked the series. I hadn't, so I picked it up and read it.

Renegades is a superhero fantasy meets slightly dystopian mash-up. With 552 pages, this book is not for the faint of heart.

Once upon a time there was a group of misfits called prodigies. They were the unexplainable group that contained superhero-esq qualities that weren't wanted. Hunted, abused, tortured, and murdered, the world attempted to exterminate them until Ace Anarchy changed everything. He united the prodigies, and together they worked to destroy the known world. What remained was a wasteland. What came after was the formation of multiple gangs that ruled Gatlon City. Lawlessness, power, and greed became the rule for twenty years. But then a new group emerged. One that brought light into the darkness of the time. The Renegades formed, and with them came justice, law, and order, or so it was thought. This is how Renegades begins.

From here we follow the story of Nova, a member of the Anarchists (villain group) and Adrian, a member of the Renegades group. Nova once believed that the Renegades would come and protect her family, but her family ended up dead. Instead, it was her uncle, Ace Anarchy, that saved her. She owes her allegiance to the Anarchists that he leads. Adrian's mother was one of the founding members of the Renegades before she lost her life in a tragedy that doesn't make logical sense. Both have missions. Both have unanswered questions.

This book is action packed and will appeal to YA readers. Overall, readers are trying to figure out which group is actually "good "and which group is actually "bad" due to the fact that there is some question behind the motives of both. It is my understanding as I read the other books in the series, that answer is flushed out. So far I'm good with how things are rolling with regards to this, but I do want a definitive answer by the end. I do detest blurred lines endings. There is are a couple of HEADS UP issues to mention.

HEADS UP - After the death of his mother, Adrian was adopted by the heads of the Renegade Group - specifically two men. He has two dads. This is not just a one line mention, and it's over. This topic is woven throughout the story. There is not a lot of light shown on their specific relationship details, The story just mentions the dads pretty consistently.

-There is a very small amount of language in this book. There are no f-bombs.