Author: J.A Souders
Pages: 364
Publisher:
Tor Teen
Release Date: November 13, 2012
ISBN: 0765332450
Rating: *4 Stars*
Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law. But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded...
Guys,
this book blew my mind away...seriously
From the beautiful utopian underwater
setting of Elysium, to the deliciously sweet romance, the got-to-love-them
characters, and the heart-pounding escape—what’s not to love about RENEGADE? It
is rare that I find a book that is able to keep me so entertained and invested
in the story. Guys, seriously, don’t let the cover fool you—Renegade is not
just a gorgeous cover. It has a beautiful, action-packed, kick-butt storyline
to match.
Utopias,
claustrophobia, and brainwashing, oh my!
Reading Renegade gave me my first
real case of readers-claustrophobia. While Evelyn didn’t seem to mind her
underwater utopian home of Elysium I constantly kept getting the chills thinking
what life would be like if I never got to see real sunlight again. The setting
and world-building is what did it for this book. The technology, the way the
society works, and the explanation of how the heck a society of people can
survive underwater was pretty darn fascinating. I loved Evelyn’s character,
especially toward the end as she began to get back some of her old memories and
she became this awesome kick-butt heroine as opposed to the fragile meek brain-washed
girl we meet in the first few chapters of the book.
