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Steelheart (The Reckoners, #1)

Brandon Sanderson

Start date: January 1, 2014

Finish date: January 31, 2014

Why we're reading this: Jan. 2014 group read
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Jun 08, 2013 Dear Faye rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Feels like a tribute to all superhero comic fans out there.

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Feb 08, 2016 ✨ jami ✨ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016-reads, science-fiction, young-adult

This book was such a fun read ! It was exciting and fast paced, and really well paced. There were no moments where I felt this book fell into a slump. I absolutely tore through it, it was action-packed and had fun twists and turns at every page.

Steelheart is about a futuristic world where an event known as "Calamity" has gifted certain people called Epics extraordinary powers. These Epic's, however, do not use their powers for good. They're basically all kind of evil. The protagonist, David, wa This book was such a fun read ! It was exciting and fast paced, and really well paced. There were no moments where I felt this book fell into a slump. I absolutely tore through it, it was action-packed and had fun twists and turns at every page.

Steelheart is about a futuristic world where an event known as "Calamity" has gifted certain people called Epics extraordinary powers. These Epic's, however, do not use their powers for good. They're basically all kind of evil. The protagonist, David, wants revenge on one of the most powerful Epic's, Steelheart, who killed his father. He is the only known person alive who's seen the ( believed to be ) invincible Steelheart bleed, and he's determined to use that knowledge to take Steelheart down.

He joins up with a group known as the 'Reckoners', who fight Epic's and convinces them to help him in his fight against Steelheart.

This book was so fun, but it did have some character issues, I thought. Although I loved the plot, some aspects of David's character were borish, and his obsession with one of the Reckoners, Megan, was annoying. His love for her was based quite heavily on her appearance, and it was a very 'love at first sight' cliche which really bothered me. Beside that he was a good enough character and had some positive characteristics but I found him to be the least interesting character in the book.

Other characters were quite enjoyable, and their complexities are slowly revealed throughout the novel. The twists throughout the book and concerning the characters was probably my favourite thing about this book, and one of them made me actually gasp, honestly.

I really enjoyed this book!! This was one of those books where the ending just comes together so nicely and leaves you wanting for more and wondering how you missed so much. The way all the loose ends and big reveals came together so nicely was great and I love that in a book. I only take off one star for the poor way I think the woman were handled in the book and for the main character being, at times, just annoying.

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