Renegades (2017)
Renegades is a 2017 young adult fiction book written by Marissa Meyer.
The Renegades are prodigies, people born with extraordinary powers, and they rebuilt order after society collapsed. To most of the city they are heroes. To Nova, who lost everything the day they failed her, they are the enemy. She goes undercover among them on a mission of vengeance and meets Adrian, a Renegade who believes in the justice they promise, and who comes to believe in her. Meyer sets a patient double life against a world still arguing over who the real villains are. Loyalty and disguise pull Nova in two directions at once.
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What is Renegades about?
The Renegades are prodigies, people born with extraordinary powers, and they rebuilt order after society collapsed. To most of the city they are heroes. To Nova, who lost everything the day they failed her, they are the enemy. She goes undercover among them on a mission of vengeance and meets Adrian, a Renegade who believes in the justice they promise, and who comes to believe in her. Meyer sets a patient double life against a world still arguing over who the real villains are. Loyalty and disguise pull Nova in two directions at once.
When was Renegades published?
Renegades was published on 10 October 2017.
Who made Renegades?
Renegades was written by Marissa Meyer.
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A few thoughts on Renegades
The academy of powered kids and the blurred line between hero and villain sit close to My Hero Academia, which chases the same questions with the same energy. For the double life of a young hero balancing duty and disguise, the game Marvel's Spider-Man carries the same weight.
Prodigies with powers who don't trust the people in charge
Nova infiltrates the Renegades to avenge her family, never sure how much of their heroism is real. My Hero Academia raises kids into a superpowered hierarchy with that same unease about who counts as good, Steelheart and Firefight watch people size up god-like Epics ruling through fear, Scythe hands lethal authority to a chosen few, and Iron Widow arms one furious pilot against the power structure that used her.
Living a double life inside the very group you're deceiving
Nova wears a Renegade uniform while planning to burn the organization down from inside. The Host follows a consciousness hiding inside a body that isn't hers, Obsidian keeps an alien's true nature secret from the girl falling for him, The House of the Scorpion has a clone raised to conceal what he was made for, and Carve the Mark strands its hero between two warring peoples claiming his loyalty.
Enemies forced onto the same side and the slow trust that follows
Adrian believes in the Renegades' promise even as Nova plots against them. Illuminae and Gemina throw hostile factions onto one doomed ship until survival forces cooperation, Aurora Rising drafts a crew of misfits who start out barely tolerating each other, and Starsight and Cytonic send Spensa into enemy territory where the people she was trained to hate turn out more complicated than propaganda allowed.