Book Review: Renegades

                                                                  Renegades Review

Renegades is set in a world were some people were born with superpowers and through out most of human history those people were discriminated against and treated poorly because of their differences that all changed a few decades before the story began when Ace Anarchy overthrew the government and allowed people with powers to take over society. Ace never put together any new form of government in place after he overthrew the old when which to a lot of angry violent people with powers to develop into gangs and the world descended into anarchy for about a decade under the rule of various villain gangs until a group of super heroes known as the renegades defeated Ace and the various villain gangs.

The story of this novel follows Nova who is the niece of Ace whose parents and baby sister were killed by a villain gang and she blames the renegades for not being there to protect her parents and for making people rely on them when it's impossible for them to protect everyone and since Ace was the one that ended up saving her in the end she sides with the villains known as the anarchists. Nova along with several other members of the anarchists are planning a way to kill the members of the council who were the original members of the renegades and current leaders of the country so that they could live freely again and because they dislike the way that they are currently running things. Since Nova was too young to be an active villain during the age of anarchy no one knows who she is and this allows her to infiltrate the renegades to learn their secrets so that the anarchists could stand a chance at defeating them.

Our other main character in this story is Adrian Everhart who is the adopted son of two members of the council and his mother was a super hero during the age of anarchy before she was murdered by someone during that time. Adrian has the ability to make is drawings come to life and he is a member of the renegades and while he believes in the renegades mission of protecting all of their countries people he also thinks that the rules that the council have put on themselves has kept them from stopping villains before they hurt innocent people, in general Adrian also thinks that the renegades were meant to be superheroes not politicians. Adrian has decide to create an alter ego for himself so that he can stop villains without following protocol.

Nova ends up joining the renegade team that Adrian is the leader of and despite both of them having secrets that they are keeping from most people in their lives they began to become close to each other and develop feelings for each other. Nova ends up questioning how right her mission is when she sees how sincerely Adrian and his team cares about protecting people and Adrian allows himself to fall pretty hard for Nova despite having secrets that he should be more worried about protecting and he's a bit too trusting of Nova who he barely knows.

Overall I loved this book, it had a complex world that had a complex history and a flawed system of government that was still trying to figure out how to run itself after a period of anarchy. I thought that the characters and the story were great and the amount of secrets that the characters kept from each other put quite a bit of tension into the story. I thought the possible romance between Nova and Adrian was sweet and interesting. Please tell me your thoughts about this book in the comment section below.