There was great foreshadowing and a cool twist that I didn’t see coming. Do only terrible people get powers or do powers make everyone terrible? Would I be a good person if I had unlimited power? In book club we discussed how Epics could be a metaphor for power like huge amounts of money and it was a great discussion about what we would do with billions of dollars. I liked the ethical questions that Steelheart made me think about while I was reading it.
For example, a superhero (the book calls them Epics) that could see the future could be killed in a scenario where all of his choices led to death. The idea behind all the superheroes being bad is that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely (pg 15).” The quest to kill someone as powerful as Superman by exploiting their weakness was completely engrossing.ĭavid, the main character, had such clever ideas to kill superheroes that seemed impossible to kill. Whenever someone asked me what I was reading, I would describe Steelheart like this: “All the superheroes are bad guys and the regular humans have to fight them.” With such a saturated market of superhero stories, it was really cool to find this unique spin. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning - and he has something they need. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.Īnd David wants in. Nobody fights the Epics.nobody but the Reckoners. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. The awed public started calling them Epics. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers.
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