Twelve years ago, a red star named Calamity appeared in the sky. Its appearance coincided with people manifesting all sorts of comic book hero style powers. These people are called Epics.
Ten years ago, an Epic named Steelheart went berserk, killed a whole bunch of people and turned Chicago and Lake Michigan into solid metal.
David Charleston was at ground zero of that incident. He saw Steelheart murder his father.
Now, David has one goal in life. Killing Steelheart.
Easier said than done. Steelheart is basically invincible.
But David saw something the day of the incident that no one else alive has seen. He saw Steelheart bleed.
Steelheart is the first novel of a teen dark superhero series, but it mostly works as a self-contained story. The main plot is wrapped up in this book and, though there are a few threads for the sequels the ending is a satisfying conclusion in and of itself. The style is brisk and gripping and the book feels significantly shorter than its 400 page length.
The main character, David, has a dark backstory and is motivated by revenge, but the tone is fun and light in a lot of places, including the banter between characters and David’s habit of using astoundingly bad metaphors to describe the various situations he encounters.
Steelheart is recommended for anyone who likes action adventure or interestingly developed worlds, or who like darker superhero type tales that don’t go into grimdark territory.
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