Archenemies

The Renegades series sounded somewhat shallow at first – from a storyline perspective. A world where various people have superpowers that form up into good and evil groups? I enjoyed how much this one expanded on the first, while starting to advance into how the groups in charge shaped society (or tried to). If I had the third book today I'd start on it immediately.

I've finally finished this book and I'm SHOOK.

Holy, that ending left me so scared but also like ‘hell yeah go get them girl' because Genissa is an ass. Her team as well though. Also, is there is shipname for Adrian and Nova because I'm dying for that ship, even though they have probably no future whatsoever.

I read the first one and thought it was fine, maybe a little underwhelming at best. That said, I wanted to see where the rest went. Well, I regret that curiosity now. This one is definitely too YA for me so there's that, but the romance is blah and the plot listlessly plods along to the bitter end when an unearned cliffhanger appears. Maybe it's a case of middle book syndrome, but I'm pass on the Renegades overall.

The Renegades series sounded somewhat shallow at first – from a storyline perspective. A world where various people have superpowers that form up into good and evil groups? I enjoyed how much this one expanded on the first, while starting to advance into how the groups in charge shaped society (or tried to). If I had the third book today I'd start on it immediately.

Pros:
- This book starts off shortly after the end of Renegades. We continue to follow Nova and Adrian in their “official” and “unofficial” roles. I really appreciate how they both have secrets but yet their secrets are the same.
- This book I felt like did a great job with the relationship building. I really feel like Nova and Adrian's growing relationship is very organic and I'm enjoying how Meyer is writing it. I know we are speeding toward a collision in Supernova, but I can enjoy it for now.

Cons:
- So I know these books are setting up a final showdown between the Renegades and the Anarchists, but I feel like there is a huge lack of explaining everyone else (like what are the non-prodigies doing all the time).
- While I still really enjoyed this book and gave it four stars, I feel like the plot was lacking in some aspects, while I know we had to set up a lot and explain a lot as we move closer to the finale of the series, I just wish we had gotten more plot. We got a lot of relationship building which I loved, but more scheming and action would have been enjoyable.

I just don't know how I feel about this series. Do I think they're very good? No. Am I still going to read the third book? Of course.
Based on the ending of the last book and this book's cover, I thought some series shit was going to go down. Instead, this felt like another book of set up and nothing happening until the end. Big surprise.

Un libro muy bueno, especialmente para una secuela.
Nunca hay un momento aburrido, todo el tiempo están pasando cosas, y en un instante podes pasar de la risa a que se te escape alguna lagrimita.
Realmente me encanta la historia, la forma en la cual está escrita es super atrapante.

Sin más que decir, YA NECESITO LEER EL ULTIMO LIBRO!!

SO SO GLAD I PICKED THIS ONE UP!!! I read the first one a couple of years ago and then never got around to the second one but boy am I glad I did. Love both our main characters (even if I was screaming at Adrian to just get a recording in that one scene because that would have literally solved the whole oh, they would never believe me issue...) and their romance is so cute. Highly recommend this and Marissa Meyer's other series, The Lunar Chronicles.