Our second protagonist, Adrian aka Sketch, is a Renegade – equally born into his role as a superhero – who wants to take down the Anarchists. Raised by her uncle, Ace Anarchy, the leader of the Anarchists, she was born into the life of a supervillain, although of course she sees herself and her friends as the Good Guys.

Nova is an Anarchist hoping to avenge her dead parents and destroy one of the most powerful Renegades there is – Captain Chromium. Because obviously, it isn’t quite that simple. It’s an intriguing set up that immediately poses the question of who decides who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. The world pretty much works according to the Renegades’ rules and while they have learned from past mistakes and implemented a code that is meant to protect civilians, their decisions are law. The Renegades now are a powerful society of gifted humans with all sorts of cool, weird, or funny superpowers. Many people died and many more were hurt. The Renegades (officially good superheroes) fought against the Anarchists (the villains) a while ago after an age of Chaos. It’s a pretty weak reason to join a group of villains set out to destroy the Renegades if you ask me, but if you just get over that one glaring problem, this book is a lot of fun.īut let’s start with the basic set up, because things do get a little confusing. Her parents were killed when she was just a child and ever since then, Nova has held a grudge against the Renegades – the superheroes who were supposed to save her family from the villains who killed them. Nova is one such superhero, or prodigy as they are called, who lives in Gatlon City. Marissa Meyer’s second series, after her wildly successful and ridiculously entertaining Lunar Chronicles, takes a step away from fairy tales and explores the world of superheroes. But Nova’s allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both.

As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice - and in Nova. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone… except the villains they once overthrew. The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies - humans with extraordinary abilities - who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. Opening line: We were all villains in the beginning. But I do remember the most important bit, which is that – much like Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles – I really enjoyed this book in a guilty pleasure sort of way. So I’m writing this more than a year after having read the book and many things have become hazy in my memory. Which in turn made me realize I had never even reviewed the first book here on the blog. In my ongoing attempt to continue and finish book series I have started, I decided to finally pick up the sequel to Marissa Meyer’s Renegades.

Renegades series by marissa meyer