Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

Steelheart (Reckoners, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

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.

Praise for the Reckoners series

#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

Reviewed by Amber on

2 of 5 stars

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This review was originally posted on Books of Amber

This is going to be a mini mini review because I don't have much to say about Steelheart, and to be honest I'm just sad about not liking it.

Steelheart didn't feel like a Sanderson book to me at all. I'm not entirely sure why. Possibly the real world setting? Maybe because Sanderson's writing style seems to have adapted somewhat to a different audience. The Mistborn books and The Stormlight Archive are very much adult fantasy, whereas Steelheart is 100% YA.

I didn't care for any of the characters. The main guy, whose name escapes me, was awful. I wasn't sure if Sanderson was going down the austism route or not with this character, but if he was then he did an awful job of it. And then there's an awful romance filled with instalove and just awful and awkward scenes. I hated it.

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