Title: Steelheart (Reckoners Book 1) Pdf
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Brandon Sanderson, the author of Oathbringer, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy. And don’t miss the rest of the Reckoners series: Firefight and Calamity.
How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father?
If someone destroyed your city?
If everything you ever loved was taken from you?
David Charleston will go to any lengths to stop Steelheart. But to exact revenge in Steelheart’s world, David will need the Reckoners—a shadowy group of rebels bent on maintaining justice.
And it turns out that the Reckoners might just need David too.
Look for book two in the Reckoners series, Firefight, available now.
#1 New York Times Bestselling Series
“Another win for Sanderson . . . he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind
“Action-packed.” —EW.com
“Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.” —The A.V. Club
Book Review: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson How do you kill someone who can't be killed?The 'Epics' came to being. Though endowed with superpowers, they were anything but heroes.David Charleston lost his father at the hands of the mightiest of them all, Steelheart, as a boy. Watching and studying the Epics for the last ten years, he's figured out each has a weakness. He just needs the help of the Reckoners to enact his revenge.The day Calamity appeared in the sky the world changed. Or rather, it seemed to have caused some people to change and not for the better.As the saying goes: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."Could any of us resist using newfound superhuman abilities for personal gain?What I liked:Steelheart is a wonderful spin on human nature. Could any of us honestly say we wouldn't be tempted to use newfound superhuman abilities for personal gain? Wealth? Status? Vengeance? We grow through struggle. But how would we improve if we were suddenly endowed with god-like power? Would we even want to? Or is power too seductive?What I didn't like:Nothing.A rare, near miss from one of my favorite authors I'm a big fan of Sanderson's other work including Mistborn and the Stormlight Archive. After reading the subject matter of this book, and expecting big things, I dove in. What I found was an original, and entertaining, but somehow different experience. To this book's credit, I've never heard of a story quite like this one, and it was certainly entertaining. What surprised me though we're the author's choices of writing style and plot devices. This book is told in an autobiographical first person perspective, from a self effacing protagonist whose choice of words often left me cringing, but who was otherwise supernatural lucky. As strange as it may seem, the main character from Steelheart just didn't feel as real as Vin, or Kaladin, or other characters from Sanderson's writings who actually HAD powers of their own. When I purchased this book, I was so convinced I would love it, I also bought the second Reckoners book at the same time. I will read it and may return to revise my current review if the story progresses and continues to surprise me, but for now having read more current examples of Sanderson's excellent authorship and having unrealistically high expectations of this series worked against me enjoying it. For now, I unfortunately would not recommend this series to fans of Mistborn or Stormlight as it is so fundamentally different. I would however recommend it to any fan of super heroes, vengeance stories, or affable and quirky protagonists.
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