👩🏽🎤 “Maybe Ace really was a villain. Or maybe he was a visionary. Maybe there’s not much of a difference.” - Renegades, page 3, @marissameyerauthor • 🌟Rating: 🐉🐉🐉/5 • 📚A of JAF’s (insta)review: I managed to squeeze one more read into 2017! 🤩 Renegades by Marissa Meyer is, in the most simplistic terms, a typical superhero story. It is a story about power, literal physical power and the very concept of it. A story of heroes and villains, of how history is written by the winners, how good and evil is all a matter of perspective, and that the world is never black and white but rather all the shades in between. It is a story about how people do bad things for the greater good and good things for selfish reasons. A story of love and family and betrayal and loss, the sins of our fathers and virtues of our enemies. • It feels like a retelling in the sense that we’ve all heard/read/watched stories that deal with people who have powers and the consequences/repercussions etc. of the reveal in the “real” world. Not necessarily new, but it’s what Marissa Meyer does well (in my opinion). Though some of the secondary characters fall a little flat and blend into each other (I frequently had to flip back to the list in the front to remember which person had which superhero alias/powers) the “main” characters do stand out strongly. The city that they live in is rich and detailed, with enough history/general background information that you understand where each side is coming from. • It was interesting to see a book that addresses a time where superheroes rule, in a sense. Addresses how “normal” people would act/react, how things like laws and crime and politics and bureaucracy would work. • Full review on blog! • ⁉️#qotd: what was your last read of 2017? • Bookstagram Challenges #decinbooks17 (day 30) @bookisglee #allthebooksdec (day 29) @thereaderbee & @loriimagination - last read of the year #2017YearinBookReview - 8 “muslim ban” fave diverse read (Nova is half-Italian, half-Filipino, Adrian is dark skinned, and has two adoptive dads) @farah.shamma
