Except the day David’s father died, David saw Steelheart bleed. Unfortunately, Steelheart, who is a type of Superman (Man of Steel), can’t be hurt by bullets or anything for that matter. Every since Steelheart killed his father, he’s planned the death of Steelheart. David doesn’t have any powers, and he’s not rich. But living underground or on the surface makes little difference because, in Chicago, Nightwielder makes it eternally nighttime and the sun never rises. Most of the people live underground as only the rich or the epics live on the surface. Sanderson throws in a few little details about how they cut out the steel where windows once were and replaced them with windows yet again, but anything that used to be a brick is now a brick that is made of steel. For instance, in Chicago, where the story takes place, Steelheart turned the entire city to steel. The Epics have destroyed most of what we would know of our world today. The world of Steelheart is not much different from our own. It’s merely not as large in scope as many of Sanderson’s other books. This does not detract from the story, though. This isn’t an epic fantasy, so it’s not expected to have a lot, but it does make the book overly simple in some aspects. There’s a few minor characters like Diamond, Curveball, Fortuity, and a slew of other odd names that pertain to Epics. Then there’s the enemies: Steelheart, Firefight, Nightwielder, and Conflux. We’ve got David, our main character, plus the Reckoners: Prof, Abraham, Megan, Cody, and Tia. The Charactersĭespite being a full-length novel, this story has a surprisingly low cast. I don’t typically read urban fantasy, but this was an enjoyable read. This story is set in modern days, which makes this an urban fantasy. This all came about one day because suddenly Calamity, this mysterious celestial body, showed up in the sky and people started changing. They are a rebel-type group whose sole purpose is finding and killing Epics, the people with super powers. It’s not really a spoiler to tell you that Steelheart kills David’s father, because it happens in chapter 1 and is in the book blurb.ĭavid wants to kill Steelheart, so he is trying to join the Reckoners. There are no superheroes, only super villains. Instead of the good guys having powers and stopping petty thieves before some super villain comes along, in Steelheart, we have only the bad guys having super powers. Steelheart is a backwards superhero book. There is also a short story called Mitosis which fits in between books 1 and 2. Steelheart was written by Brandon Sanderson and is the first book in the Reckoners Trilogy. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson Amazon | Goodreads My Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Not to mention I’ve got a signed copy of The Way of Kings to giveaway here in the near future. But now I am venturing into them, so you’ll see a lot more Sanderson reviews coming. He’s one of the fantasy greats, I read fantasy, and I still haven’t read his books. Steelheart is the first Brandon Sanderson book I have ever read.
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