![]() ![]() After David’s father is killed by Steelheart in a bank-raid, the young boy seeks out the Reckoners, a shadowy resistance group, and convinces them by dint of his obsessive research into the potential weaknesses of Epics to let him join. Compared to the other large human settlements ruled by Epics, who are usually driven mad by their power and kill and destroy for sport, Chicago is a safe haven. In the series opener Steelheart, young protagonist David grows up in a Chicago ruled by the eponymous Epic who’s established a brutal, caste-based society - but at least it’s a working society. Firefight, the second book in his YA Reckoners series is perhaps less well known, and centres on a group of humans in post-apocalyptic American cities hunting evil X-Men - sorry, ‘Epics’, given powers by the giant red orb hovering around in the sky called ‘The Calamity’ that suddenly appeared one day. Brandon Sanderson needs little introduction: wantonly imaginative rollicking action scenes well thought-out magic systems. ![]()
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