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Steelheart (The Reckoners, #1)

Brandon Sanderson

Start date: November 1, 2019

Finish date: November 30, 2019

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Sep 26, 2013 Tom rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I’m going 4.5 and a great start to a series! I struggled a little with the rating. If I put it up against the other Sanderson books I might have to round down. But I enjoyed it from start to finish so I'm going with rounding up.

Steelheart is about a world where certain people came into powers on one day called the calamity and changed the way the people were ruled. They call these people Epics and they all have different powers and weaknesses but the one thing they tend to have in common is that ...more

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Nov 03, 2015 Sarah E B rated it it was amazing

Shelves: series-to-finish, read-2025, suspense-thiller-mystery-etc, most-interesting-worlds, young-adults, dystopian-or-post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, setting-alternate-earth, favorites, series-continue

This Author's tells this story with characters ( from this book) that WILL draw you in and care for them. From the first sentence of this amazing book, I was very much hooked. When reading this book, i was reminds ( in many ways) of X-Men, I was nothing but surprised and amused. Brandon Sanderson has created a very good world lore for the start of this series. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who likes action packed stories or who are looking for a book with superpower in it ( that have ...more

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Jan 14, 2014 Owen rated it it was amazing

"But you were dead."

"Death can not stop true love. All it can do is delay it a while."

One of my biggest pet peeve's with writing these days is the overuse of character death in order for us to supposedly feel more deeply for a situation, character, or the novel as a whole. On the other hand, one of my favorite ability of authors is to seamlessly bring a character back from the great beyond.

Death certainly brings powerful emotions into play.

Loss

Denial

Hope

Faith

Belief

All of these things surrou ...more

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