All’s fair in love and anarchy in Supernova, the epic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer’s thrilling Renegades Trilogy This volume sees Nova and Adrian struggling to keep their secret identities concealed while the battle rages on between their alter egos, their allies, and their greatest fears come to life. Secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed as anarchy once … are revealed as anarchy once again threatens to reclaim Gatlon City.
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A+ rating…amazing ending to this incredible trilogy…including a couple of twists that I DID NOT see coming. Wow. Loved it and the entire series.
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This was a fantastic series. It is really fun and the characters are awesome.
This book manages to pick up the pace and keeps the action going, while making you wonder what will happen next. The character arcs are excellent and the tension between the two main characters makes you root for both. I like that the romance is brought to a satisfying conclusion, but equally that the author balances the romance with the action. And the author leaves a door open to return to the universe, so hopefully we’ll see more of the characters.
Wow. Just wow. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two books in this series but nothing prepared me for how good this last installment would be. Between non-stop action, Meyer’s trademark complex character relationships, and all sorts of twists and turns I pretty much did not set this book down. I devoured it, all the while marveling at how well all the story lines wove together for an extremely satisfying finish. With a cast of characters this big and so much going on it is no small feat to put a crisp, clean bow on this phenomenal series. This will definitely be worth a reread (and crossing my fingers she’ll revisit this world some day). Five big stardust-filled stars!
This book had more action and more twists and turns than any conclusion to a trilogy I’ve ever read. I don’t want to give too much away so I won’t go on and on about the way Meyer took seeds she planted way back in book one and suddenly brought them to life, but suffice to say some of the writing and the conclusions in this book are downright magical. The fact that the two sides had been portrayed as neither good nor evil, that nothing was black and white, for the first parts of the series (which was what made the books amazing in my opinion) made the ending seem a little forced to me which is what keeps me from giving it the full 5 star treatment. The whole bad guy goes crazy world domination thing seemed like an easy way to suddenly say, hey look this was the bad guy all along. Personally I’d have been happier had the ending gone differently and the world gone back to “normal” rather than a “new normal” but maybe that’s just me and anyway, you won’t know what I mean until you read the series, which you should. It’s a fun read with a lot to think about despite being set behind the screen of superheroes and villains.
This book is an amazing conclusion to Meyer’s trilogy. It had me hooked the whole way through, and I was always wondering what would come next. Made me cry; I love this book so much.
This book holds nothing back and offers all the satisfying conclusions one would expect from a superhero novel. The conclusion to the Renegades trilogy is nothing short of pulse-pounding, epic, page-turning action. Supernova is probably one of the best conclusions to a trilogy that I have read.
In Supernova, our band of heroes and villains are back. This time, their struggle for domination takes on epic casualties. Buildings ripped from the ground. Deception lurks at every turn. Lines between right and wrong, good and evil are blurred. At the center of it all stand Nova and Adrian. Secrets are revealed and agonizing choices must be made.
As a writer, several plot elements from the previous books jumped out at me, removing some of the element of surprise. The truth about what happened to Nova’s family. The clarity with which Nova sees her infamous Uncle. So many threads left hanging in previous books tied up just as neatly as I expected they would.
As a reader, I loved those twists and turns — even if I saw them coming. I craved the action-packed scenes just as much as the more intimate, one-on-one scenes. I enjoyed the fantastic ride that pulled me from page to page without regard to the passage of actual time. And I especially loved that one detail that Meyer left hanging in the epilogue. I don’t expect she will do anything with it, though I sure would love to read a short story about Magpie and Nova.
Of all the books I’ve reviewed on this blog — of all the books I’ve recommended — the Renegades trilogy by far stands above the rest. If you haven’t read these books, you need to. It delivers everything you would come to expect from an outstanding superhero series.
I loved this trilogy! Normally, when you get to the third book, it just ties up loose ends and closes the curtain. Supernova brings new twists and turns that were planted in the first book in the series while also sticking to the original characters’ stories. I highly recommend.
What a pleasant surprise! I loved Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles and liked Heartless a lot too, but I was less than impressed with the first two in this series (Renegades and Archenemies). They just didn’t strike me as all that original. The superhero thing has been done into the ground at this point, and I also had some logical issues with Nova’s core motivation. But somehow Supernova managed to turn that all around, or at least most of it.
The story opens with Nova and Adrian still in love, and still on the same Renegade team, ostensibly. But neither is yet aware of the other’s secret identity, or of the fact that they are archenemies (and I do love a good secret identity trope. Marissa Meyer seems to specialize in those.) The Renegades have developed Agent N, a substance that drains prodigies of their powers, and intended to use it against the Anarchists. But the Anarchists got hold of it and used it on some of the Renegades instead. Ace Anarchy is Nova’s uncle and the leader of the Anarchists, but he’s in prison. Nova is still playing both sides, and it’s only a matter of time before her identity is discovered. I figured it would play out in the usual way: at the very end, at the most climactic moment, Nova and Adrian will face each other as their alter egos, all will be revealed, and they will hate each other all the more for it, only later learning that they can work together toward a common goal…
But this isn’t what happened at all. I don’t want to spoil it, but Meyer definitely broke the mold of how these types of stories should go. I still had some issues with Nova’s motives for being an anarchist in the first place, but even those get turned on their head. Since throughout the series both the Renegades and the Anarchists are painted in shades of gray, I kind of wondered how it could possibly end (since a story like this kind of needs to be good vs evil), but gray did indeed sharpen into black and white in a big reveal at the end that made the climactic moment satisfying in a way it otherwise couldn’t have been. And in the end, an unlikely and innocent character saved the day (which I LOVED–such a great twist, and I was so glad this character finally got a chance to shine, after three books’ worth of foreshadowing). I love happily ever afters, and we got one in the end!
This book concludes the renegades trilogy and the author delivers. Good story, interesting characters and unique ending.
I love this series and this author. Marissa Meyer captured my heart with her Lunar Chronicles and continues to woo me with her Renegades trilogy.
Gosh, that ending! And just when I thought there would be no more surprises. This was everything I wanted it to be. I flew through the pages of this book!