It takes the entire story for anything to actually happen in Nova and Adrian's lives, as well as for anything to happen between them, that I found myself struggling not to skip ahead. It makes sense now that I know there is another book coming, but that's definitely my biggest frustration with this book. I should mention is that I definitely thought this was the end of the series when I started reading, not just the middle book of the series, so I was letdown by the pacing of the story. Archenemies definitely gives us some of that. I think if Meyer's wants to continue having us question what makes someone a "hero" or "villain" in this series, we need to know characters besides Nova and Adrian better. Instead, I really liked spending more time with Adrian's superhero fathers and reading about that family dynamic Simon and Hugh come off very human in this book and I really want to see more of that. Even Ace is a bit wishy-washy to me we get to know him slightly better, but I wasn't overly impressed.
With the exception of Ace and Nova, the others are very bland sidekicks who don't seem to know what they are fighting for. To put it bluntly, I don't find the Anarchists to be very compelling characters. If heroes are the creators of it, doesn't that make it automatically good? Or will we see their fall into becoming the true villains? I'd love to get more of a debate going between Nova and the Renegades in the next book the reaction to the chemical was a bit too passive to be believable. Nova is passionate in her opinions, while Adrian has a harder time deciding what he thinks is right or wrong. Meyer's once again provides no easy "right or wrong" choices to be had in this series with the introduction of Agent N, the books major ethical dilemma is around who can be trusted with this and when should it be used. I loved the first book, Renegades (book review here), and was more than excited to jump back into Galton City and find out what comes next for Nova and Adrian. The Lunar Chronicles is such a great series and one that I often recommend to others, so I was very ready to fall in love with another Marissa Meyer's series.
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