Steelheart

The Reckoners, Book 1

By: Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson, comes the first book in a new, action-packed thrill ride of a series - Steelheart. Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics.

But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will.

Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.

And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning - and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience.

He's seen Steelheart bleed.

And he wants revenge.

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great sci fi

wonderful action constantly. Little back story given only as needed, and without lengthy explanations. Kept action going. A great story of redemption, and justice fulfilled. characters were all three dimensional, all of them had wonderful developed personalities. You'll love this story if you like science fiction

awesome

loved the storyline and plenty of detail to keep you mind busy ... kept me engauged the whole time

Great start to a new series.

What did you love best about Steelheart?

I loved the insight into the people and the psychological effects of superpowers on the empowered and the normal people.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The Professor was adequtly mysterious and intriguing. I also liked the main point of view character but it was the others that kept me listining.

What about Macleod Andrews’s performance did you like?

He's good. I'm not used to hearing him for Brandon Sanderson's books, and I am used to listening to him from the Sandman Slim series, so I kept expecting a lot more cursing. But he did a really good job. Very good at putting emotion and living speech into his narration.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It did make me joyous at the moment of epiphany for the main character.

I was really surprised with how much action was in this book.

I read this after finishing the Mist Born series. I didn't think there could be nearly as much action in any other book but this book over delivered on the action. It's totally different from the mist born series but so good.

loved it

Brandon Sanderson has the be the best fantasy writer out there right now.

This was awesome.

Different vibe, fantastic fun

This story has a very different vibe than a traditional rhyme or reason to the world or its "magic" but that's not the point. It ends up being a light(er) fun character romp through the pages of a comic book that leaves you wanting more.

This would make a great TV series

Great first book of the series. Good enough for me to get the rest of the books. Very excited to listen to more! I think they should turn this into a television show

Oh so good!

I loved this whole idea, And concept of powers.
The plot was great!
And it was so easy to ok get engaged!
One of my favorites for sure!

Great listen

If you need a book to keep you awake while you drive from Reno to salt lake through some of the most boring road on the planet. This is the book.

Very Nice Surprise

English/Português

I bought Steelheart because of the author. The synopsis itself did not bring me any conviction that it was a good story. Still, I was surprised.

At first I was apprehensive. The early story develops at a fast pace but kind of silly, predictable. As if it were really something out of a story in old comics. It felt a bit ominous, and I was thinking I had bought a bomb and was reading an experimental novel by the author, in a different style of which he was used to.

Eventually I was charmed by the main character. He is very funny . That kind of loser that's hard not to admire somehow, even falling to the loser's cliché to be among the big winners and showing his value. The metaphors are so moronic that one cannot help but laugh.

The pace is good, the characters well developed, and although some things are predictable, the author manages to catch us with some unexpected secrets and plot twists that have no sense of treachery (nothing like LOST). Five stars, no doubt.


Comprei Steelheart apenas por causa do autor. A sinopse em si não me trouxe nenhuma convicção de que seria uma boa história. Ainda assim, me surpreendi.

No início fiquei meio apreensivo. O início da história desenvolve em um passo rápido mas meio bobo, previsível. Como se fosse realmente algo saído de uma história em quadrinhos antiga. Fiquei apreensivo, achando que tinha comprado uma bomba e estava lendo um romance experimental do autor, em um gênero diferente dos que eu estava acostumado a ler dele.

Eventualmente me encantei pelo personagem principal. É muito engraçado mesmo. Aquele tipo de perdedor que é difícil de não criar certa empatia, mesmo caindo no clichê do perdedor se encontrando entre os grandes vencedores. As metáforas são tão debilóides que não tem como não achar graça.

O ritmo é bom, os personagens também, e apesar de algumas coisas serem previsíveis, o autor consegue nos pegar com alguns segredos e plot twists inesperados que não tem sensação de trapaça (nada como LOST). Cinco estrelas, sem dúvida.