SuitabookRenegades
Marissa Meyer
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside the child, especially around the early accounts of family deaths and later combat. Pause to compare characters’ stated principles with their choices, without revealing the ending.
- Themes
- Justice, vengeance and moral complexity: Nova seeks vengeance against the Renegades, while Adrian believes in justice; the story presents competing heroic and villainous groups and characters with divided loyalties. The conflict appears designed to complicate simple hero-versus-villain categories, with attention to what characters do rather than merely what powers they possess.
- Power, freedom and social order: The Renegades establish peace and order after societal collapse, while conflict continues over their rule and over how people with extraordinary abilities are treated. The premise gives readers a framework for considering the costs and benefits of order, control and freedom in a damaged society.
- Grief, prejudice and relationships: Nova and Adrian have experienced parental loss, while hatred and violence are linked to prejudice and revenge; relationships develop across opposing sides. The reported treatment connects understanding and relationships with reduced hatred, while retaining characters’ secrecy, grief and dangerous loyalties.
- Worth knowing
- Give particular thought to the book’s treatment of bereavement and violence: deaths in characters’ histories, war and present-day battles are significant elements, alongside limited romance and occasional profanity.