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If I had
to sum up this book in one word, it would be: gripping. However, that one word
would not do this novel justice. From the moment I started reading I was hooked
and could not put the book down.
In the
prologue, when we first meet David, he is a scared little boy that loves his
father. Through that love, and after watching his sole guardian and protector
murdered in front of him, David is transformed into a soldier with a singular
purpose. When we see David again, in chapter one, he is eighteen and he is a
man on a mission; a mission that was shaped by his experience on that day in
the bank when a man with super powers killed his father and took control of the
city, calling it New-Cago.
The action
picks up quickly in this novel and never pauses to let you catch your breath. Soon
we are introduced to the beauty in a red dress, Megan who is hiding a deep
secret that could shatter David’s reality. At the moment, she is even more of a
badass than he is. Proficient in weapons, combat, and brave to boot, not to
mention that she is the newest member of the Reckoners, a team that David hopes
to join; a team that makes it their business to kill men with super powers –
called Epics. She is a dream come true for David.
After
taking down their first Epic together, David meets the rest of the team and
proves that his value to the team is worth his weight in gold, or, rather the
information that he has obtained throughout his life is worth his weight in
gold. Perhaps the information he has gathered in his notebooks is priceless
when you were in the business that the Reckoners were in, the business of
killing Epics, and business was good.
Corny
and cliché as it was I could not help myself, this book is a one of a kind and
puts an interesting twist on what it would be like if regular people one day
obtained god-like super powers. Brandon Sanderson does not disappoint as he
builds this action packed thriller to its climax: defeating Steelheart.
Review written by: Andre Alan
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