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Steelheart

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Prologue
Part One
Chapters 1-13
Part Two
Chapters 14-22
Part Three
Chapters 23-30
Part Four
Chapters 31-41
Epilogue
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A series of books by Brandon Sanderson written more for the Young Adult crowd.

1) Steelheart
2) Firefight
3) Calamity
4) Lux
Text copyright © 2013 by Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC
For Dallin Sanderson, who fights evil each day with his smile
I’ve seen Steelheart bleed.
May contain spoilers
I fought because of his dreams.
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Extract (may contain spoilers)
I crossed the street toward my flat, hands in the pockets of my jacket, fingering the roll of industrial tape I usually kept there. The other two hadn’t liked my plan, but they hadn’t come up with anything better. Hopefully they’d be able to fulfill their parts in it.

I felt completely naked without my rifle. I had a couple of handguns stashed in my room, but a man wasn’t really dangerous unless he had a rifle. At least, he wasn’t consistently dangerous. Hitting something with a handgun always felt like an accident.

Megan did it, I thought. She not only hit, but hit a High Epic in the middle of a dodge, firing two guns at once, one from the hip.

She’d shown emotion during our fight with Fortuity. Passion, anger, annoyance. The second two toward me, but it had been something. And then, for a few moments after he fell…there had been a connection. Satisfaction, and appreciation of me that had come out when she’d spoken on my behalf to Prof.

Now that was gone. What did it mean?

I stopped at the edge of the playground. Was I really thinking about a girl now? I was only about five paces from where a group of Enforcement officers were hiding, probably with automatic or energy weapons trained on me.

Idiot, I thought, heading up the metal stairway toward my apartment. They’d wait to see if I got out anything incriminating before grabbing me. Hopefully.

Climbing steps like that, with my back to the enemy, was excruciating. I did what I always did when I grew afraid. I thought of my father falling, bleeding beside that pillar in the broken bank lobby while I hid. I hadn’t helped.

I would never be that coward again.

 

Added: 02-Nov-2018
Last Updated: 11-Mar-2022

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 24-Sep-2013
Delacorte Press
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
24-Sep-2013
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$9.99
Pages*:
388
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   30 Jun 2016 - 3 Jul 2016
Internal ID:
2433
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-449-81839-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-449-81839-8
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Craig Shields  - Cover Artist
From amazon.com:

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Brandon Sanderson, the author of Oathbringer, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy. And don’t miss the rest of the Reckoners series: Firefight and Calamity.

   How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father?
   If someone destroyed your city?
   If everything you ever loved was taken from you?
   David Charleston will go to any lengths to stop Steelheart. But to exact revenge in Steelheart’s world, David will need the Reckoners—a shadowy group of rebels bent on maintaining justice.
  And it turns out that the Reckoners might just need David too.
  Look for book two in the Reckoners series, Firefight, available now.

Praise for the Reckoners series

#1 New York Times Bestselling Series

“Another win for Sanderson
. . . he’s simply a brilliant writer. Period.” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Name of the Wind

“Action-packed.” —EW.com

“Compelling. . . . Sanderson uses plot twists that he teases enough for readers to pick up on to distract from the more dramatic reveals he has in store.” —The A.V. Club
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Brandon Sanderson  
Birth: 19 Dec 1975 Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Notes:
From Rythm of War (Kindle edition):

BRANDON SANDERSON grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. He is the author of such bestsellers as the Mistborn® trilogy and its sequels, The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning; the Stormlight Archive novels, The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer, and Rhythm of War; and other novels, including The Rithmatist and Steelheart for young adults and the Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series for middle-grade readers. In 2013 he won a Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Emperor's Soul, set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time® sequence.

Awards

2013Good ReadsBest Young Adult Fantasy amd Science Fiction Nominee
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