I rather enjoyed Brandon Sanderson’s Steelheart – the first in the Reckoners series and also the first of the author’s novels that I’ve read. I stumbled across the UK cover for Firefight, the sequel, while researching something else. It’s a rather excellent cover, I think, and will sit very nicely alongside Steelheart and the novella Mitosis. Here’s the synopsis:
They told David it was impossible – that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet, Steelheart – invincible, immortal, unconquerable – is dead. And he died by David’s hand.
Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life more simple. Instead, it only made David realise he has questions. Big ones. And there’s no one in Newcago who can give him the answers he needs.
Babylon Restored, the old borough of Manhattan, has possibilities, though. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic, Regalia, David is sure Babylon Restored will lead him to what he needs to find. And while entering another city oppressed by a High Epic despot is a gamble, David’s willing to risk it. Because killing Steelheart left a hole in David’s heart. A hole where his thirst for vengeance once lived. Somehow, he filled that hole with another Epic – Firefight. And he’s willing to go on a quest darker, and more dangerous even, than the fight against Steelheart to find her, and to get his answers.
Firefight is due to be published in the UK by Gollancz in January 2015. Here are the other two covers:
Kind of surprised Sanderson moved the series out of Newcago. I would have like to see if the Reckoners could actually take over the city but I am looking forward to this one.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but I like the move as a way (I suppose) to expand the world-building.
DeleteI still need to read Steelheart, sigh. XD
ReplyDeleteIt's a good, fun novel. Quick read, too.
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