Archenemies

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.