Archenemies
Ratings111
Average rating4.1
SO SO GLAD I PICKED THIS ONE UP!!! I read the first one a couple of years ago and then never got around to the second one but boy am I glad I did. Love both our main characters (even if I was screaming at Adrian to just get a recording in that one scene because that would have literally solved the whole oh, they would never believe me issue...) and their romance is so cute. Highly recommend this and Marissa Meyer's other series, The Lunar Chronicles.
Un libro muy bueno, especialmente para una secuela.
Nunca hay un momento aburrido, todo el tiempo están pasando cosas, y en un instante podes pasar de la risa a que se te escape alguna lagrimita.
Realmente me encanta la historia, la forma en la cual está escrita es super atrapante.
Sin más que decir, YA NECESITO LEER EL ULTIMO LIBRO!!
AAAAAAAAAA I AM STRESSED IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE!!!! NOW THIS IS HOW YOU DO SLOW-BURN AND ENEMIES TO LOVERS
I JUST WANT MY BABIES NOVA AND ADRIAN TO BE HAPPY AND IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER
I read the first one and thought it was fine, maybe a little underwhelming at best. That said, I wanted to see where the rest went. Well, I regret that curiosity now. This one is definitely too YA for me so there's that, but the romance is blah and the plot listlessly plods along to the bitter end when an unearned cliffhanger appears. Maybe it's a case of middle book syndrome, but I'm pass on the Renegades overall.
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dios, fue buenísimo. una montaña rusa de emociones por todos lados.
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God, this series is grating. The first book was okay, but now I'm getting fed up with every single character. Going to power through #3, but I'm hate-reading by now.
God, this series is grating. The first book was okay, but now I'm getting fed up with every single character. Going to power through #3, but I'm hate-reading by now.
I spent a good part of this book wondering why this needed to be whole damn trilogy; feels like the story is being dragged out longer than necessary.
Archenemies was, in my opinion, the perfect second book to the Renegades series and it sets up perfectly for the last book.
The first half of this book for me was very slow, it felt like quite a lot of day to day sort of stuff and not a lot of action. Although, the second half of the book really took me away and I could not stop reading! Around the time Adrian came back as the Sentinel, and caught Frostbite's team torturing Hawthorn things started to pick up, on top of that we finally see some feelings confirmation between Adrian and Nova. I just absolutely adored the scene when they go into the mural room together and she falls asleep for the first time in years because she feels so safe, and then when he tells her that he likes her at the dance I was sure that Nova was going to evade the question but in the end she didn't.
I have to say that the ending of the book really put me through the wringer. I had so many mixed emotions that I don't know how I'm going to survive the week without continuing on with this series.
Although loosing your powers would be awful, I was kind of revealed that Frostbite and her team (for the most part) got their powers taken away. But when that pike went through Max I almost screamed. I kept telling myself that there is no way that anyone could kill Max off, and I am just hoping so badly that he lives. Maybe this experience, like Nova was talking about earlier on in the book, will show that they need more non-prodigy people in the work force in society is to function correctly!The whole catacombs scene really had me going. I didn't think Adrian would have shown his identity to Ruby, Oscar, and Danna, but he did and I was so happy that he did. The fact that they gave the Sentinel credit for Ace's capture but kept his identity secret made my heart leap. Although I should have seen this coming, I was infuriated when Ace was so ready, if Adrian wasn't so dense, to sell Nova out. I had a little hope that maybe he had a good spot for her, but I guess he really is just a villain. I'm not sure what Nova is going to do now that she told Adrian she'd help him kill Nightmare, she has dug herself an even deeper grave.
The Renegades series sounded somewhat shallow at first – from a storyline perspective. A world where various people have superpowers that form up into good and evil groups? I enjoyed how much this one expanded on the first, while starting to advance into how the groups in charge shaped society (or tried to). If I had the third book today I'd start on it immediately.
The Renegades series sounded somewhat shallow at first – from a storyline perspective. A world where various people have superpowers that form up into good and evil groups? I enjoyed how much this one expanded on the first, while starting to advance into how the groups in charge shaped society (or tried to). If I had the third book today I'd start on it immediately.
I enjoy the back and forth between the two character points of view in this series. I am not sure how much actually happened until the end of this book but I enjoyed the journey none the less. I am excited for the final book at the end of this year.
I've finally finished this book and I'm SHOOK.
Holy, that ending left me so scared but also like ‘hell yeah go get them girl' because Genissa is an ass. Her team as well though. Also, is there is shipname for Adrian and Nova because I'm dying for that ship, even though they have probably no future whatsoever.
Pros:
- This book starts off shortly after the end of Renegades. We continue to follow Nova and Adrian in their “official” and “unofficial” roles. I really appreciate how they both have secrets but yet their secrets are the same.
- This book I felt like did a great job with the relationship building. I really feel like Nova and Adrian's growing relationship is very organic and I'm enjoying how Meyer is writing it. I know we are speeding toward a collision in Supernova, but I can enjoy it for now.
Cons:
- So I know these books are setting up a final showdown between the Renegades and the Anarchists, but I feel like there is a huge lack of explaining everyone else (like what are the non-prodigies doing all the time).
- While I still really enjoyed this book and gave it four stars, I feel like the plot was lacking in some aspects, while I know we had to set up a lot and explain a lot as we move closer to the finale of the series, I just wish we had gotten more plot. We got a lot of relationship building which I loved, but more scheming and action would have been enjoyable.
I just don't know how I feel about this series. Do I think they're very good? No. Am I still going to read the third book? Of course.
Based on the ending of the last book and this book's cover, I thought some series shit was going to go down. Instead, this felt like another book of set up and nothing happening until the end. Big surprise.