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It doesn’t get much more comic book than that. However, that’s small potatoes, and I realize that’s part of the point – the underdog rises up to defeat the ultimate evil. Perhaps my one nagging plot point is how David, awkward as he is, seemed to be able to do just about everything. Steelheart is one of those books that surprised me with all the flash – the flashy weapons, the flashy action, the flashy plot points. The plot moves very fast, and while some points are pretty predictable, it is very enjoyable. David just grows on you, and it’s hard not to smile and fall in love with him at least a little bit. I can’t quite think of any other word that fits David so well, which is why I’m using it so much. That shouldn’t work in a character, but with David it does, partly because I smiled remembering the days I was so passionate (I’m still passionate now, but it’s a different sort of passionate) and awkward, and partly because David’s inability to do anything halfway is just endearing. He doesn’t just dislike Epics, he dislikes them to such an extent it basically dominates his life. He doesn’t just have a hard time figuring out what to say, he awkwardly trips over his words and makes a mess of them. He doesn’t just have a crush on someone, he almost falls head-over-heels in love with them. His bad metaphors are fantastic, but toward the end of the book I started wondering what the point was. I mean, eyes can’t normally drill holes through things, so the metaphor works regardless, right? Megan’s eyes could have drilled holes through butter. Megan’s eyes could have drilled holes through. His awkward moments had me laughing out loud quite often. He tries hard, almost too hard, and he’s incredibly awkward. Tropes and predictability, in this case, work very well.ĭavid is an easy protagonist to like. The evil guy is supposed to be evil and the good guys are supposed to be good. Yes, it is predictable, and yes, it can be kind of tropey, but this is one of those rare books where it works. It’s not incredibly serious, and has a unique, Sanderson-esque spin on the superhero tale. The style of writing due to that, and due to the age group that this is written for, makes Steelheart a different reading experience. Even Mistborn, while being a bit more “fun” than his other books, are still epic and serious compared with Steelheart. However, the other books I’ve read by him were pretty serious, and very epic. Wow, I really should have thought of a better way to say that. Really, Stealheart is basically a comic book in novel form…. There are villains, and underground aspects of society (in the literal and figurative ways). There’s tons of flashy action and the woman who David (the absolutely fantastic protagonist) becomes almost unreasonably obsessed with. You really can’t go wrong for that price.) However, there was a Black Friday sale on Audible, and I decided to go for this one. I don’t really go for books about young adults (or “new adults” in this case). That’s a huge reason why I really had almost no desire to read it. On the surface, there’s nothing about Steelheart that I should actually like. 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.
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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.