The overall concept was really interesting as well! I love how the Epics were superhero-types but… they weren’t the good guys! And the limitations and structure of their abilities was so well-crafted and cleverly explored as the plot progressed. David always cracked me up and even when he was having a hard time with things, he was a really easy-going person and took everything in stride. I LOVED the banter between Megan and David (bring on the banter!!!!) and he really took it so well. They don’t always all get along perfectly, but they come together to form a really cohesive team. It’s another fantastic ensemble and a really great range of people and personalities. He works hard for what he wants but he’s also very passionate too (which also tends to get in his way). He’s clever, crafty, detail-oriented, and also your average guy/teenager who wants to be the badass who gets to hunt Epics and do some cool movie-type stunts (but in real life). He’s an average kid who had some stuff happen in his life and he does what he has to in order to get by. I loved David so much because HE’S not the superhero. He’s got it out for Steelheart ever since a life-altering event when he was a kid and ten years later, all of his well-laid plans are finally starting to come together when he comes across the Reckoners - a group of individuals who hunt down Epics. David is an excellent main character and he’s just so relatable. Each character has SUCH personality and they really just leap off the page (or in my case, make themselves individual while I listen to the audiobook). The characters, as always, are excellent. It’s definitely more of a superhero/science fiction feel in somewhat dystopian society and I really just gobbled it up!. From the synopsis I gathered that STEELHEART was more superheroes meets dystopian and that was fairly spot on. So far from Sanderson I’ve read high fantasy, fantasy meets steampunk meets Western, and mystery meets psychological so I was already fairly convinced that Sanderson can dabble in anything he wants to and I will straight-up love it. I became a BIG Brandon Sanderson fan this past year… and luckily for me, after I binge-read the Mistborn series, there were still plenty of books for me to catch up on! Naturally, being a mostly YA reader and with the release of the second book in Sanderson’s Reckoners series FIREFIGHT, STEELHEART was high on my radar! When Audible contacted me to see if I was interested in the audio, it was the final gentle push to start this series immediately - and I was more than happy to! For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning - and he has something they need. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.Īnd David wants in. Nobody fights the Epics.nobody but the Reckoners. And to rule man you must crush his wills. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. The awed public started calling them Epics. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. Related Posts: Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn #1), The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2), The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3), The Alloy of Law (Mistborn #4), Legion (Legion #1) & Legion: Skin Deep (Legion #2),, The Emperor's Soul, The Eleventh Metal (Mistborn #0.5),, Firstborn, Shadows of Self (Mistborn #5), The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn #6), Calamity (The Reckoners #3),, Perfect State, Mistborn: Secret History (Mistborn #3.5), Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, Elantris, The Rithmatist (Rithmatist #1), Warbreaker (Warbreaker #1), The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive #1), Snapshot, Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2), Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive #2.5), Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive #3) Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Superheroes, Young Adultįind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Date Completed: January 29, 2015
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