This is a satisfying conclusion to Renegades and Archenemies. It keeps taking the story in directions I wasn’t quite expecting but without feeling like it’s veering too far off course or destroying too many things along the way.

I enjoyed it and read most of it in an afternoon, but I don’t feel strongly about it -- I suspect, in part, because I’m not its _target audience (ie. teenagers) and the genre isn’t my favourite (ie. superheroes). ( )

Representation: Biracial (half white and half Asian) main character
Trigger warnings: Explosions, physical assault and injury, blood, grief and loss depiction, dead bodies, death of people
Score: Six points out of ten.
This review can also be found on The StoryGraph.

That's it. I reached the end of the trilogy. Well then, it's been a ride to read the entire series with some parts I found more enjoyable than others but here's the recap: Renegades was okay. Archenemies was worse. Supernova was slightly better. As I said before Marissa Meyer is an alright author but not the most consistent but I'm happy to say I enjoyed this one despite its flaws. It starts (more like finishes) with the characters, Nova and Adrian I've come to know now and at this point they need no introduction. I pick up after the events of the second instalment where HQ is in ruins after a war and I also see everyone cleaning up for the first few pages but after that nothing much happens. I must stress the point that I couldn't connect or relate to Nova and Adrian and sometimes it was a struggle to read them, not to mention the other characters didn't help the reading experience either as the writing missed the mark. There was a lot of talk about a new substance called Agent N that removes superpowers from prodigious people and the Renegades would use that to full effect but it already fell in the wrong hands in Archenemies and that happened again so what's the point of using that if it's so dangerous to everyone? Agent N plays a role later in the novel when the Anarchists raid a meeting and in the second half the pace picks up, so much so it's enough to save the story and earn a star (if not for that I would've given it three stars.) ( )

Amazing! Awesome ending! ( )

MARISSA YOU CANNOT END A SERIES LIKE THAT WTF ( )

Great finale to the trilogy! Extremely satisfying reading from top to bottom. I really do wish I could get a glimpse into the future, to see what happened with the Prodigies from prison, for example, and whether they were so easily accepted back into the "everyone's a hero" movement. And that cliffhanger of an epilogue! I won't say I didn't wonder once or twice, but I was still caught by surprise.

Very pleased, craving more! ( )