{"id":59652,"date":"2021-06-05T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T12:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=59652"},"modified":"2024-08-07T22:44:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T02:44:54","slug":"review-nova-the-renegades-2-by-rebecca-yarros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=59652","title":{"rendered":"Review: Nova (The Renegades, #2) by Rebecca Yarros"},"content":{"rendered":"

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4.5 stars!<\/b><\/p>\n

A gorgeously emotional second-chance-romance that is sexy and intense, this book had me feeling all the feels, and I loved it!<\/p>\n

This is the second book in the Renegades<\/i> series, following a team of extreme athletes as the complete a year of their college education on board a \u2018study abroad\u2019 cruise, travelling the world. It\u2019s such a great set-up, and though this story was hinted at in the first in the series, WILDER (a hint that had me madly scrambling to get my hands on this book), you could read this as a standalone.<\/p>\n

Landon is one of the founding members of the Renegades, and after having his heart shattered, he has turned into a complete manwhore. They call him Nova, for Cassanova<\/i>, and he lives wild, taking his sport to the extreme and sleeping with whoever shows an interest, all to try and forget about how he walked away from the love of his life.<\/p>\n

Rachel is the best friend of Leah, heroine of book #1. She\u2019s late to join the cruise, and when she comes aboard she\u2019s horrified to discover that Landon and the Renegades are on board, and that her best friend is madly in love with one of them. Landon is the man who demolished her heart, and she\u2019s never gotten over it, and now they are in each other\u2019s space again, and it\u2019s the last place that she wants to be.<\/p>\n

Landon and Rachel\u2019s past relationship was short and somewhat tumultuous, but it consumed them, and they became each other\u2019s whole world. Until Landon was faced with an unimaginable choice and left, leaving them both shattered. Landon knows he made the biggest mistake of his life when he walked away from Rachel, and he\u2019ll do anything for a second chance with her, and so he begins his epic quest to earn her forgiveness and win her heart again.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re it. You\u2019ve always been it, and I don\u2019t care if I have to prove it to you over the rest of this damn year\u2014you\u2019re the only girl I\u2019m going to touch.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love a second chance romance! There\u2019s always so much emotion and intensity, and this book had that in spades! I could feel the connection between Landon and Rachel, I could feel their pain over all that happened between them in the past, I could feel Landon\u2019s yearning to have Leah back, and I could feel Leah\u2019s anger, grief and confusion at having Landon back in her life.<\/p>\n

“Everything was familiar and yet new. His scent was the same, the undertones of his skin unchanged by whatever cologne still managed to cling to his clothing. His voice still slid over my nerves like silk, his eyes the same ever-changing hazel that held me captive. His hands cupped my face with the same tenderness while the strength in his arms had only grown. He was my Landon underneath all that Nova, only ten times more\u2026 everything.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s not an easy path for these two, and they have a lot to work through to even get on speaking terms, but Landon is completely devoted to Rachel and he grovels like a champ. He takes all of Rachel\u2019s anger and hurt, accepting that he is to blame and allowing her to unleash everything on him. He apologises without hesitation over and over again, and he makes it absolutely clear that he knows he did the wrong thing, that he still loves her, and that he wants her back. And OMG, I was in a world of swoon!<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going anywhere. If I have to tell you that a million times before you\u2019ll believe me, then I\u2019ll do just that. You and me\u2014we\u2019re our own little infinity. Our forever is wrapped up in everything that\u2019s between us.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rachel is understandably terrified to trust her heart to Landon again, but the more time they spend together, the more she begins to believe him, and bit by bit, she starts to open herself up to him once again.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou chose me.\u201d
\n\u201cI always will.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The love between these two is just beautiful. It\u2019s always been there, it\u2019s just buried by Rachel\u2019s pain, but once they move on from their past and begin to explore the possibility of something new between them, that love is allowed to shine once again, and it. Is. Beautiful!<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was never a moment that I didn\u2019t love you. There will never be a moment that I don\u2019t love you. You can love me or not, but that will never change the way I belong to you.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But while Landon is fighting for his girl, he\u2019s also putting his body, and his life, on the line to achieve his dreams. And Rachel has some pretty intense family issues going on, and once again she’s challenged to wonder if she can truly trust Landon again. There is some drama and angst in this one, and it did get frustrating, but I could understand it, and it\u2019s worth it to watch these two sort through their issues and find their HEA.<\/p>\n

I loved this story. So many feels, I adored Landon and Rachel together, and their passionate, emotional and swoony romance completely stole my heart. I\u2019m so excited to continue on with this series and can\u2019t wait to dive into Penna\u2019s book up next.<\/p>\n

4.5 stars!<\/p>\n

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The Renegades<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Wilder (#1)<\/strong> (Paxton & Leah)
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Nova (#2)<\/strong> (Landon & Rachel)
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Rebel (#3)<\/strong> (Cruz & Penna)
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Check out our Rebecca Yarros Author Spotlight<\/a> for more amazing reads!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Buy:\u00a0\u00a0Amazon\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Paperback\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Audio Review 4.5 stars! A gorgeously emotional second-chance-romance that is sexy and intense, this book had me feeling all the feels, and I loved it! This is the second book in the Renegades series, following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","yasr_overall_rating":4.5,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,9,24,58,29],"tags":[273,48,1274],"class_list":["post-59652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama","category-romance","category-second-chance-romance","category-sports-star","category-steamy","tag-rebecca-yarros","tag-review","tag-the-renegades"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nova.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gaNL-fw8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}