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Renegade A Novel The Silver Blackthorn Trilogy Kerry Wilkinson Books Reviews

I was a HUGE fan of the first novel in this series, so to say I was happy to get to read the next one a little early is putting it mildly. And for me it was worth every second of the wait.

Silver and friends have escaped the immediate clutches of the King and are on the run. Decisions have to be made and everyone is looking to Silver to make them, she however is not sure she is the right person for the job.

Renegade is very addictive – whilst Kerry Wilkinson expands and deepens the mythology he has also written a bit of a thriller, a bit of road trip drama and given our characters a lot of emotional upset to deal with. He keeps things rocking along at a heck of a pace, introducing new places and people, giving Silver a lot to handle and solidifying and intensifying the relationships between our core group. It is engaging and compelling throughout.

I am entirely in love with this series, one of those times I can’t really tell you why – although it probably is mostly to do with Silver as a character who is a gorgeous mix of strong independent woman and ditzy teenager. You just want to follow along with her, a bit like her fellow runaways – one of those brilliantly written characters that just pop off the page and become very real.

I’m being careful not to say too much about the story itself just in case you have not started this series yet – but I will say it is excellent – great writing, great characters, terrific world building, at least several bags of maltesers worth of reading joy.

The end drove me nuts – yep thanks for that Mr Wilkinson – now the wait begins for the finale. I’m going to be first in the queue. Everyone had better stay out of my way!

**source Publisher review copy UK**
While this book was still good, I didn't find it as engaging as the first one. A lot does happen, but so much of it seemed to be Silver traveling with others on her way to one destination or another. Through this book, she suffers losses, deals with much more than any 16 year old girl should, and struggles with just wanting flee and hide. But she also finds out how much her village supports her and that others see her as a hero.

Silver finds so many things being heaped upon her shoulders now that she has escaped with the other offerings. They all look to her as a leader, and if that wasn't enough, she comes to find out that the resistance is using her as the face of the resistance. That part reminded me of Katniss in The Hunger Games. Neither wanted that mantle placed upon them, but because of one action that each took they find themselves as being called upon as a beacon of hope and change. But that's still not all that Silver finds placed upon her. It eventually comes to her attention that there is a bounty on her head. One great enough that ordinary people are forming groups to hunt for her, and even worse, innocent girls are dying for being mistaken as her. So, no pressure.

Silver does her best to keep all of the offerings safe as they flee the castle and continue on. It's extremely hard going, but she does have a destination in mind. While in the castle she got a hold of those maps with resistance locations on it, and she's heading towards one of them. As it turns out, it's not so much they who find a cell, but the cell that finds them. The leaders there seem to be relatively good people and take in the majority of the offerings she came with. Silver, though, takes a few with her in order to enter the city of Middle England and one of the towers in search of someone who goes by the code name Rom. They're surprised who it turns out to be, and he puts them in contact with the mysterious X who wants to meet Silver. Managing to escape the tower, her and the others now venture on to find him. But first is a stop at Martindale to make sure those she loves are safe. After figuring out where they are hiding, it's Opie who rushes out to greet her first. The tension between Opie and Imrin is nearly palpable and Silver skirts the issue of who she wants to be with. Which is fine for now because she does have more pressing matters to take of. She doesn't stay long and leaves behind three more when she takes off, going with Opie, Faith, and Imrin. And after days of walking they finally find what they're looking for and when Silver meets him, she knows immediately who X really is. He does a good job of selling her on his ideas and convinces her to return to the one place none of them want to go, back to the castle. Even though things do not go according to plan, they end up right where they need to be. But things happen just a beat too slow and during the escape one of them gets left behind. Making the guilt of that worse is when Silver finds out exactly what X has planned with what he sent her to get. It's something she can't allow and the three of them left decide to take action against it, but things go downhill fast and Silver loses another. But with these loses she has decided what she's going to do. Maybe not how exactly (and I'm think that with what she just did it's going to be even harder), but she's determined.

I wasn't really expecting the ending we got. I was a little surprised at what X was planning and what he was really like. I was actually thinking he was going to be an important leader in the next book, but I guess not...

While the whole romance thing isn't exactly a huge part of the story, it's big enough and I can't say how much I really hope she ends up with Opie. I just don't care for Imrin much at all.

There was one thing towards the end that kind of bugged me. It's fiction, so who am I to say that teleportation doesn't exist and work. But my issue was the fact that Silver understood how it works and how to build it just by the little explanation given her and looking into one of the boxes at the wires and what it was composed of. That was just so ridiculously unbelievable.
My Thoughts On The Book

'Outlaw. Rebel. Hero'

The Plot Of The Story
Renegade continues straight after Silver's escape from Windsor Castle with the other escapees, they are alone and hunted but they are free, for now. Her plan to expose the truth about the King has failed to do what she had hoped and it's been turned back on her and the other Offerings meaning that now she is the ultimate enemy to the crown and is being hounded as an outlaw, hunted like a common criminal. Everyone, the offerings and the underground rebellion, is looking to Silver to lead them but she doesn't believe she is the right person to do so, she feels as lost and alone as they do... what should they do for the best, what can they do to stop the oppression they are suffering? Silver is stronger than she knows ans is more than worthy of being looked up to but she needs to believe it herself before she can truly lead them into a brighter future. It's going to be a long road and huge fight, can Silver live long enough to get everyone through this and be victorious?

What Is There To Love?
The characters are the heart and soul of this series so far, they were in the last book and they continue to do so in this one too. Obviously Silver is the star of the show, she's strong and kick-ass but she is flawed in that she is just as lost, confused and scared as everyone else. She knows what needs to be done but doesn't want to have that kind of responsibility over others as she is frightened of letting them down, of being the things that gets her friends and family killed as a result of her actions. I think a nod need to be given to Faith in this book too though as she makes a amazing leap into the forefront and proves herself to be a leading character and the perfect partner for Silver in the upcoming fight. She is smart, sassy and incredibly brave in spite of everything that has happened previously ad the change is an incredible thing to watch.
The overall plot is growing steadily and impressively, the story is flowing nicely and cleanly. The backstory is an interesting one and is one of the things I love the most about the book, the world is a mess and I find it intriguing to find out what happened, how things got so bad and so very messed up. Could you imagine it? It's crazy world, led by a nut-job of the highest degree!

What Is There To Dislike?
Renegade didn't quite hit me in the guts like Reckoning did, and didn't have the same sparkle and pizazz of it's predecessor. I did still enjoy the book immensely but sometimes the second book in a series does this, it's dips a little to make way for what can potentially be a dramatic and awe-aspiring final book...... hopefully!
The 'love triangle' continues to be an irritant, I can't explain why I dislike it as much as I do as usually I find myself rooting for one guy or another but in this case I don't want either of them to get the girl, I personally don't think either of them deserve Silver. I don't feel any chemistry between any of them and I don't think Silver really does either as she doesn't become a quivering girlie mess around either of them, which you would expect if she was really into one or both of them. In fact I think Silver probably has better chemistry with Faith than she does with the boys and that's saying something.

How's The Writing?
As with Reckoning, Renegade is an immersive and emotional that's book full of grit and gumption. Wilkinson has drawn on the past mythology started in Reckoning and added to it, layer by layer and while we still have another book to go before the series is over the back story is growing nicely and is proving to be the sturdy backbone of the series.
Wilkinson has an easy style of writing that is easy to read but it full of action and adventure, emotional and hard-hitting, he doesn't hold back on issues that need to be harder but still manages to keep a delicate balance between that and the more softer aspects of the relationships between the characters. He's created a story full of unexpected twists and turns and has given this book a slightly different feel to the last one, the last felt more like a dystopian YA while this is tinged with more of thriller aspect and has turned away from the previous path a little which is probably more to do with the switch from being prisoners stuck within Windsor Castle, fighting for their very existence to the Offerings being out in the wide world, looking for somewhere to hide while they plan their next move, roaming the British countryside and hiding in abandoned villages.

Final Thoughts
Renegade is a fine sequel to Reckoning, it's not quite as sparkling as it's predecessor but it's still a fine, fine book and is a worthy addition to the story of Silver Blackthorn and her fight against those oppressors in the world. It's a lovingly craft tale that keep on surprising me in the best way possible. It has been likened to The Hunger Games and as someone who's not read those books I can't comment on that but I can say that even if this series is similar it's still a wonderful series in it's own right and it need to be read regardless of any similarities to anything else, it's it's own story and it deserves it's own accolades.
My anticipation for the final book is right up there and I really can't wait to see how this story will end, who Silver will end up with, with she overcome and defeat the King and his cohorts.... lots of question needing answers so that wait is going to be a hard, hard one.
Make sure you read the books in order! great distopian series
I love this series!