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The people of Gatlon City call the Renegades heroes, and perhaps for some people that is true. It’s hard to see the prodigies (humans with extraordinary abilities) and the Renegade council as anything other than heroic with their masks and cloaks and comic-book bearings. Once, the council members emerged from the ruins of a crumbling society. They overthrew the villain gang known as the Anarchists and transformed chaos into peace and order, but in a world of heroes, one thing is certain: There will always be villains.
Nova knows the picture-perfect Renegades cannot be trusted, and she has good reason to hate them. This world they’ve made is not as perfect as they make it appear, and she’s on a mission of vengeance, determined to take down the Renegade council once and for all.
Adrian, a Renegade boy ruled by his own beliefs for justice, has an insatiable desire to hunt down the mysterious teenage villain Nightmare, who attacked the council and nearly murdered one of his dads. With the help of Nova, the newest member of his Renegade patrol, he starts to track Nightmare. Little does he realize that the villain he’s looking for is masquerading as a Renegade right under his nose and is the girl he’s starting to have feelings for.
Renegades is an engaging story viewing two sides of an age-old war between two rivals who don’t even realize they are rivals. This ends up posing an interesting question: Where is the line between hero and villain?
Since Renegades is a superhero novel, you’d think the story would be packed with action scenes, but, surprisingly, there are a lot of politics and “keeping to the code.” There is more than a little rule-breaking, though, as well as a few action scenes that are explosive and heart-pounding. Add to the mix a vigilante, a mysterious unsolved death, and a slow-budding, innocent romance, and I couldn’t help but devour the book despite its slow buildup and daunting size.
Rated: Mild, for violence. The opening is quite intense, though it is not too graphic. There are only two or three instances of mild language.
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