Steelheart
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4.5 • 98 Ratings
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • A stunning new edition of the action-packed first book in Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners series—featuring a new cover and a spine design that stretches across all three books!
“Another win for Sanderson . . . he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.”—Patrick Rothfuss, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary people extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics.
David Charleston will go to any lengths to stop Steelheart—the villainous, seemingly invincible Epic who killed his father and wreaks havoc on the city that was once Chicago. 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 just might need David too.
Read all the books in the Reckoners series!
STEELHEART • FIREFIGHT • CALAMITY
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Steelheart is the most thrilling revision of the superhero world that we’ve seen since Watchmen. Teenager David Charleston can barely remember a time when superhumans didn’t rule over the shambles of America, but his father’s murder by Chicago’s brutal ruler, Steelheart, has him bent on retribution. As he seeks to join a covert group dedicated to destroying their near-omnipotent overlords, David’s personal knowledge of Steelheart’s weakness could change everything—or push him over the edge. Brandon Sanderson has created a genre-defying dystopia that’s both philosophical and exciting.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
On the heels of his YA debut, The Rithmatist, Sanderson opens another series for teens with an ultraviolent yet playful entry into the superhero genre. More than a decade ago, a mysterious event known as Calamity created Epics powerful beings straight out of the comics, complete with both incredible abilities (invulnerability, illusion, transmutation) and silly weaknesses (smoke, UV light, being attacked by someone exactly 37 years old). Thus far, the Epics appear to be wholly corrupt, with villains rising up to subjugate humans and take over the world. David's father was killed by a ruthless Epic named Steelheart, and David, now 18, has waited 10 years for revenge, certain that he holds the key to Steelheart's weakness. Hooking up with a ragtag group of rebel Epic-killers, David and crew knock off Steelheart's subordinates and lure him out. Although readers may not be surprised at the twists that arise, the near-constant action, Sanderson's whiz-bang imaginings, and a fully realized sense of danger (the brutal opening scene alone will hook many) make this an absolute page-turner. Ages 12 up.
