Though Steelheart is now dead and David is revered by many who call him “Steelslayer,” he feels empty. His downfall became David’s lifelong dream after David witnessed his father's murder at the hands of the Epic - a confrontation that held the key to Steelheart’s weakness and helped David earn his place among the Reckoners, a group that seeks to overthrow and destroy the Epics. The virtually indestructible Steelheart became the self-styled emperor of Newcago, formerly Chicago, which he transformed into steel with one of his abilities. Months have passed since David, now 19, and the Reckoners brought down the Epic called Steelheart, who, along with many other formerly ordinary humans, received powerful abilities after a red star called Calamity appeared in the sky. 1 New York Times best-seller “ Steelheart.” View pamela.kramer.' FIREFIGHT : The Reckoners, Book 2,' by Brandon Sanderson, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 432 pages (f) (ages 14 and up)ĭavid Charleston and the Reckoners are back for new adventures, and more is revealed about Epics, their origins, their powers and their weaknesses, in “Firefight,” the sequel to Brandon Sanderson’s No.Please note: This review is based on the final hardcover book provided by Delacorte for review purposes. Their collective objective is to save doomed planets, until the day something goes horribly wrong and it is up to one young member of the guard to fix things before time runs out for her and the planet she calls home.” This book will appeal to lovers of fantasy and fans of Matthew Cody’s “ Super,” “ Powerless,” and “ Villainous.” And fans of this series will be thrilled to know that Brandon Sanderson has a new series coming out (in 2018) called “The Apocalypse Guard.” According to the publicist from the publisher, Delacorte, this new series “is set in a world parallel to that of the Reckoners, and an organization of superpowered individuals is at its center. It’s a wild ride, and it’s a ride well worth taking. It’s a testament to Sanderson’s writing that he could create such brilliant and horrible figurative language. And it truly is a gift no one could execute so many terrible similes without really trying. A quirky and humorous character trait that Sanderson gives David is his gift for horrible similes. Suffice to say that they should be read in order to really enjoy the story and the character development. The first two books are thrilling and filled with nonstop action. David’s own girlfriend Megan is an Epic, and she has an alter-ego from another dimension called Firefight. He also learns that if Epics don’t use their superpowers, they lose their desire to do evil. Slowly, over the course of the three books, he changes his mind and tries, instead of killing the Epics, to get them to face their fears so they lose the evil nature that most Epics have. David has a few issues, the biggest being that after his father was killed by an Epic being, a human imbued with superpowers, he wants to hunt them and kill them. Sanderson manages to create a narration that is brilliant - both humorous and exciting at the same time. Brandon Sanderson’s “The Reckoners” series, which began with “ Steelheart” and continued with “ Firefight,” concluded with the recently released final book in the trilogy, “Calamity.” The main character, David Charleston, tells the story in fabulous first person narrative.

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