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Steelheart
by Brandon Sanderson
In a near future world, people suddenly develop super powers and somehow all turn out to be real meanies. Civilization promptly falls apart. Ten years later, David, our stock scrappy protagonist, is out for some sweet vengeance and joins a guerrilla group serial killing these super villains.
Of course there's an eligible bachelorette badass on the squad, and of course David gets all awkward around gurls. Some maudlin ensues, but the cringing isn't so bad, that it's going to make your head implode. Plot has at least one decent twist, some good actions and the writing is what you'd expect from a comic book turned novel: functional and forgettable, so much so, you can probably skip a third of it without missing anything.
The bit where this really falls short is the lack of grit. Case in point, in the future "spark" has become the swearword. As in: "shut the spark up". This book has so much murder in it, you'd never hand it to a kid anyway. Why do people have to use the lamest swearword in the history of swearing?
If you've read Correia's Hard Magic, this is its timid younger brother. Handshake isn't as good, but at least he won't clock you if you sneeze in his direction.
Of course there's an eligible bachelorette badass on the squad, and of course David gets all awkward around gurls. Some maudlin ensues, but the cringing isn't so bad, that it's going to make your head implode. Plot has at least one decent twist, some good actions and the writing is what you'd expect from a comic book turned novel: functional and forgettable, so much so, you can probably skip a third of it without missing anything.
The bit where this really falls short is the lack of grit. Case in point, in the future "spark" has become the swearword. As in: "shut the spark up". This book has so much murder in it, you'd never hand it to a kid anyway. Why do people have to use the lamest swearword in the history of swearing?
If you've read Correia's Hard Magic, this is its timid younger brother. Handshake isn't as good, but at least he won't clock you if you sneeze in his direction.