But for David all he wants to do is get back his once great friend from the darkness. But now he has disappeared and become what he was meant to become – an enemy of ordinary humans and most of all the killer of Epics, the man David. He lost his heart to Firefight and his father to Steelheart, but now he is going after a most dangerous enemy that once used to be his biggest ally – Regalia.ĭavid had always known of his secret but had kept it even when he was struggling to suppress his paranormal powers. David’s life has been controlled by his quest to resist the Epics since that historic day. Firefight is the perfect Epic to fill that hole as he David is so obsessed with him and will undertake a dangerous and dark quest to kill his mark.Ĭalamity: The third novel of the series is an incredible novel that tells of the day calamity befell the world.

Entering a city run by such a vicious Epic is a huge gamble, but one that David is willing to take.īy killing “Steelheart” who had inhabited his revengeful heart, he had left a hole which had to be filled with another Epic. Regalia, a high ranking Epic rules the city but David is sure that taking back Babylon Restored will give him everything he needs.

David is looking for answers in Restored Babylon that had once been called Manhattan. BEST THE RECKONERS BOOKSįirefight: The second novel of the series is one of the best novels of the series. The adaptation of “Steelheart” the first novel of the series is set to be made into a movie. “Firefight” was nominated for the Best Young Adult Fantasy at the Goodreads Choice Awards while “Calamity” won the Best Young Adult Dragon Award at Dragon Con 2016. “Steelheart” the first novel of the series was nominated for the Best Young Adult Fantasy 2013, the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards, and won the 2013 Best Young Adult-Speculative at the Whitney Awards. It is a great novel that shows why the author won the Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction Award in 2013. Steelheart had killed his father years back and David has been studying his subject looking for an opportunity to take him out. They spend their time studying the weaknesses of their enemies so that they can finally eliminate them one by one.ĭavid a young man joins the Reckoners determined to eliminate the invincible Epic – the so called Steelheart. But the Reckoners are a shadowy group of people determined to fight off the oppression of the epics. These people are now called Epics as they crush any resistance to their will, have an incredible desire to suppress, and do not have any friends among ordinary people. “Steelheart” the first novel of the series is set a decade past where a sudden burst in the sky above the planet had given random women and men supernatural powers. But one man will not give in and joins an underground movement to resist the oppressors. Some people imbued with these powers have taken it upon themselves to enslave or prey upon their fellow men, resulting in a catastrophic collapse of contemporary forms of governance. Out of nowhere, random people start attaining super natural powers that make them immune to laws of physics. The series is about a post-apocalyptic world that suddenly has a mysterious object starts to orbit the planet.

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