If you are interested in purchasing a copy of Renegades for yourself, you can find it on Amazon here. I couldn’t help but root for her as she attempts to infiltrate the Renegades so that the Anarchists can destroy them, but also root for her relationship with Sketch and her underlying desires to let go of her Anarchist past.Ĭlassroom application: I would recommend this book to middle school students and up, especially comic books fans. Sketch doubles as the Sentinel, a rogue superhero created from the tattoos that Sketch has drawn on himself. Nova is really Nightmare, part of the Anarchist family, villains with an odd collection of evil powers, like controlling bees and showing people their worst fears. It truly is one of the best YA novels out there.Nova and Adrian (Sketch) are both living double lives, unbeknownst to each other, and each of them hate the other’s other persona. For anyone out there sick of cliches and ready for a well-written book with relatable characters and a unique plot, Renegades is the first book I would recommend. Renegades leaves you wondering which side is good and which is evil, and the internal conflict Nova faces as she strives to carry out her goals is the character development every novel should strive for. Not only is it as well written as Meyer’s wildly successful series The Lunar Chronicles, but it also has the moral complexity and plot twists that you want in a novel. This book, however, captured my interest instantly.

Throughout the book, she forges friendships with her enemies under the guises, but what happens when she’s kept her enemies too close and starts to develop feelings for a certain Renegade? Will she put behind her life as a villain to help others, or will she continue on her mission, dedicated to the fact that the Renegades do not deserve to lead the city?Īs an avid reader, I can not count the times that a book covered the stereotypical hero’s journey, and to be honest, it made me want to stop reading books about magical powers.

The added bonus of not needing sleep is a result of a traumatic event in her childhood – something she blames the Renegades for. Little do her enemies know that she is actually the villain, Nightmare, with the special ability to put people to sleep with a touch. Joining the Renegades as a spy, Nova poses as a superhero with the ability to survive without any sleep, a seemingly passive talent. But what happens the main protagonist of a novel is a villain? What happens when they are the ones trying to take down a superhero organization? Marissa Meyer’s book, Renegades follows Nova, an anarchist with an agenda to abolish the Renegades and exact revenge. Growing up, all of the books and novels we read focused on the heroes, the ones that ultimately won in the end.

Renegades by Marissa Meyer