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Renegades by Marissa Meyer

Title: Renegades Author: Marissa Meyer Some spoilers contained below.  Read at your own risk. Cover: At first I didn't particularly care for the cover, but after reading the book, I feel that it fits the book pretty well.  Still not sure that someone would pick it up based off the cover though. Review:  I really wanted to like this book.  I loved Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles series, and I enjoyed her book Heartless.  But I felt going in that I might not like this one as much, and I was right.  Actually I was pretty disappointed with it, and maybe that was because I was expecting to be disappointed.  Right from the start, before the book even started, there is a character list that includes the powers of the characters, and some of those powers made me cringe.  More on that in a moment. The premise is that some people, many people, have super powers and these people are called prodigies.  Years ago a prodigy named Ace Anarchy ...