(That’s just an example by the way that I made up. When you get to the end of a chapter and the last line is “And then I turned around and her sword was at my throat,” you just HAVE to flip the next page and see what happened next. Also, I’m kind of a sucker for a cliffhanger at the end of chapters. As David helps plan to take Steelheart down you just race through the words wanting to see what happens next. There’s plenty of action, but then even the interpersonal scenes are gripping. This book moves along smoothly from one scene to the next. The thing that had me turning the pages though was the pacing. STEELHEART is a gripping book about what it means to be a superhero.and how it all could go horribly wrong. I wish I had written a few of them down for example here, but you get the point. He’s about as bad at it as a cat with chopsticks trying to play dominoes (see what I did there?). A running theme throughout the book is David’s inability to make a good metaphor. The book is written in first person so we get a very personal view of that world and David’s thoughts. It’s also fun to get this view of the world through David, a regular human in a strange world.
No one can harm him so how can anyone stop him. I love the idea of a being as powerful as Steelheart claiming the city as his own. He can highlight the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) changes in society as a result of these super beings. By setting the book in a present day earth Sanderson can really get down to what it is these Epics do and how they work. The tagline for the book is (as far as I can tell) “I’ve seen Steelheart bleed, and I’ll see it again.” That was the only time that Steelheart had ever been hurt in a fight and David is the only witness to it. That was the day that Steelheart killed David’s father. David was present when Steelheart claimed the city of Chicago as his own fiefdom and took over. Steelheart is one of them, and one of the most powerful. I say super heroes because of their powers, but in reality every one of them (they’re called Epics in the book) has in fact turned into a super villain instead. STEELHEART is set on Earth after an event called the Calamity has appeared in the sky and started turning some people into superheroes. This is the type of book that begged me to slip away from family and read for just a few minutes more to let the dishes sit in the sink for just a bit longer so I could read another chapter to stay up late, no matter that I had work early the next day. (You have to understand that I work two jobs and have four kids, one of which is a two-month old, so reading a book in three days is kind of like reading it in one sitting for me.) From the prologue, STEELHEART by Brandon Sanderson ( Amazon) hooked me in and never let me go. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book in three days.
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