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Well I guess I read the Reckoners series

July 27, 2017 by vel veeter 1 Comment

So this has almost all the marks of a Brandon Sanderson series. The action is very well-written, the characters are overly goofy, the dialogue is overly goofy, but he doesn’t use the word “maladroitly” so who knows, maybe it was ghostwritten. I enjoyed it over all. Don’t my ribbings of Sanderson to heart. I like his books, but they’re so silly in their own ways. Steelheart The premise of the series is that a cataclysmic event happened on Earth about a decade or so from […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: brandon sanderson, calamity, Firefight, Mitosis, Steelheart

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:311 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: brandon sanderson, calamity, Firefight, Mitosis, Steelheart ·
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A good ending for the Reckoners.

April 10, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

Calamity is the third book in Brandon Sanderson’s YA series about what if superheroes were eeeeevil. If you haven’t read the first two, back away from this review slowly, ’cause I’m about to spoil the heck out of both of them. Hokay, so, now that the Reckoners know (or at least think they know) the secret to bringing back Epics from the darkness, the Reckoners have gone from being the only people killing Epics to being the only ones willing and able to help them. And […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: brandon sanderson, calamity, narfna, sci-fi, superheroes, the reckoners, Young Adult

narfna's CBR8 Review No:51 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: brandon sanderson, calamity, narfna, sci-fi, superheroes, the reckoners, Young Adult ·
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