Steelheart

Paperback, 472 pages

Published Oct. 18, 2014 by Dex.

ISBN:
978-605-09-1829-8
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5 stars (2 reviews)

There are no heroes, only villains. My father believed that a hero was going to step in, and he died for that belief. Steelheart killed him for seeing that he had a weakness, and no one knows I saw. Now I've spent years getting their weaknesses, and plotting my revenge.

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4 stars

Superman exists, and he's got to die.

A breathless bid-budget action romp of a dystopian superhero story set in a Terminator-esque nightmarish future. Ten years ago something called Calamity created superhumans, "Epics", every single one of which is a power-hungry, murderous tyrant. The protagonists are a bunch of normal humans, admitted terrorists whose aim is to murder the Epics right back. In particular, they are out to get Steelheart, one of the most powerful and dangerous of the Epics. Of course, he's supposed to be practically unkillable.

This is probably one of the most uncertain four stars I've given. On a different day I might have been annoyed by many of the details that I now decided to celebrate. I did like the relentlessly bleak approach, the interesting take on morality and the engaging visuals. Even the hypercompetent gun-crazy narrator kid was enjoyable, because in spite of all the impressive …