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A review by jenpaul13
Supernova by Marissa Meyer
4.0
All the secret keeping and striving to exact justice (or revenge) boils down to a superpowered showdown in Marissa Meyer's Supernova.
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The public reveal of Agent N's neutralizing capability looms before the Renegades, Anarchists, Rejects, and citizens of Gatlon City, making the plans that Nova's formulating to get her revenge and help her uncle that much more urgent to finalize and put into action. But all the secrets she and Adrian have been keeping from each other, and their fellow Renegades, have been building up such that when they finally boil over and come to light, the question becomes one of trust and doing the right thing rather than which side someone is on as the fate of Gatlon City relies on unlikely allies overcoming their differences to fight together in the hope of their city's survival.
The story of Renegades vs. Anarchists receives an adequate ending in this last installment of the trilogy that lays bare the secrets that had driven drama and tension within the series. The character development demonstrated a growth in thinking and exploring the potential of morally gray areas, instead of the more clearly cut good vs. evil mindset that had prevailed for a majority of the characters throughout this tale; the work that had previously gone into the relationships in the second book, particularly between Nova and Adrian, paid off in the heightened sense of drama their conflicted actions manifested as in this book. Though the existence of heroes implies that they have a force to fight against, such as villains, the epilogue to this series conclusion hammers that point home hard, leaving the otherwise super tidy ending open to future mischief from a minor character (who got too much attention and had ample clues about them sprinkled throughout the text for attentive readers to pick up on as to their real origin).
Overall, I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.
To read this, and other book reviews, visit my website: http://makinggoodstories.wordpress.com/.
The public reveal of Agent N's neutralizing capability looms before the Renegades, Anarchists, Rejects, and citizens of Gatlon City, making the plans that Nova's formulating to get her revenge and help her uncle that much more urgent to finalize and put into action. But all the secrets she and Adrian have been keeping from each other, and their fellow Renegades, have been building up such that when they finally boil over and come to light, the question becomes one of trust and doing the right thing rather than which side someone is on as the fate of Gatlon City relies on unlikely allies overcoming their differences to fight together in the hope of their city's survival.
The story of Renegades vs. Anarchists receives an adequate ending in this last installment of the trilogy that lays bare the secrets that had driven drama and tension within the series. The character development demonstrated a growth in thinking and exploring the potential of morally gray areas, instead of the more clearly cut good vs. evil mindset that had prevailed for a majority of the characters throughout this tale; the work that had previously gone into the relationships in the second book, particularly between Nova and Adrian, paid off in the heightened sense of drama their conflicted actions manifested as in this book. Though the existence of heroes implies that they have a force to fight against, such as villains, the epilogue to this series conclusion hammers that point home hard, leaving the otherwise super tidy ending open to future mischief from a minor character (who got too much attention and had ample clues about them sprinkled throughout the text for attentive readers to pick up on as to their real origin).
Overall, I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.