Doctor Impossible, a super genius villain, launches one last plan for world domination. One of my favorites is Soon I Will be Invincible by Austin Grossman. If you enjoy Brandon Sanderson’s Steelheart, you might like some of the other super-hero genre novels published in the last few years.
It sounded like he had a lot of fun with it. Macleod Andrews does an excellent job narrating this story. Steelheart is available as an audio book on compact disc from the CLEVNET library system. If you like ebooks, you can get a copy of Steelheart from the CLEVNET eMedia Collection in both EPUB (Nook) and Kindle formats. Sanderson also left teasing hints to questions - such as ‘How did the Epics come to be? Why are there no good Epics? What is Calamity and where did it come from?’ - questions that will hopefully be addressed in future books. The novel does not end on a cliff-hanger, but there is obviously more to the story. And all of them appear to have no moral compass or human empathy. They have an odd and varied assortment of powers and each has at least one weakness that can be exploited. The Epics aren’t just generic stand-ins for Marvel or DC comic superheroes. Each Reckoner is different and reacts to David’s presence among them differently. Complications always crop up and it seems David and the Reckoners will come to a bad end long before they get their chance to kill Steelheart.īrandon also pays attention to creating memorable characters. You’d think that would be easy with ordinary humans taking on super powered epics but he isn’t content to let it lie there. However, if there’s one fact we can hold on to, it’s this: every Epic has a weakness.īrandon Sanderson is a master at ratcheting the tension. Light, breezy and fun to read - I love a narrator prone to creating metaphors that fail in amusing ways - this story can work for adults as well as teens. Steelheart is a superhero novel without superheroes. I enjoy superhero stories, especially when they aren’t the standard superhero fare found in the comic books of Marvel and DC comics. Of course, you know an all-powerful invulnerable Epic isn’t going to go down easily. With that, the possibility of killing Steelheart and dismantling his tyrannical government seems to be just within the Reckoner’s grasp. Known for killing low level and occasionally medium level epics, the Reckoners aren’t too keen on attempting to kill Steelheart who is one of the most powerful, invulnerable epics ever.īut David has a clue to Steelheart’s weakness as well as notebooks crammed with information about epics in Newcago (formerly Chicago) and elsewhere in the Fractured States. Now a young man, David finagles his way into a cell of the Reckoners - humans who kill Epics. Ten years ago, Steelheart killed David’s father while the boy watched. The weakest epics become scary villains while the strongest become tyrants.ĭavid Charleston, our narrator, hates Epics in general and Steelheart in particular. They are all inhuman monsters who have no regard for human life. Since Calamity burst in the sky, the world has had super powered people called Epics. Superheroes, Super Villains, Dystopian Society, Revenge, Assassination, Criminal Activities, Justice, Powers, Weaknesses, Freedom Fighters, Coming of Age, Terrorism, SUMMARY: TITLE:įantasy, Dystopian Fiction, Superhero Fiction, DESCRIPTORS: Remember, if you are interested in this book, click the mouse on the book cover to order it from your local CLEVNET library. He has a clue about the weakness of one of the most powerful Epics ever - Steelheart - and he wants the Reckoners to help him assassinate the invulnerable Emperor of Chicago. “Every single person who manifested powers - we call them Epics - turned out to be evil.”ĭavid Charleston has devoted his young life to the study of Epics.
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