Firefight

 

Title: Firefight (Reckoners #2)

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Number of Page: 448

Publisher: Ember

David Charleston has lived for one purpose: to kill Steelheart, the supremely powerful, seemingly invincible Epic who murdered his father. Now Steelheart is dead and David is beginning to question everything that he—and the world—understands about the superhumans they call Epics.

David’s suspicions are the reason he follows Prof to the flooded city once known as New York. But what he finds there could be what ultimately ends him. The truth might just burn deepest of all. . . .

Review:

It seems I am right. The second book is better. I always like when the story has more world building and more questions. Also the Epic villains were more interesting than the first book. 

After killing Steelheart in New Chicago, David and the other Reckoners went to Babilar which is located in Manhattan. The city was governed by an Epic named Regalia who was an old friend of Prof. I like how David started asking himself whether what the Reckoners did is right. He was not the person he was in the first book. He knew that not every Epics were bad and need to be killed. Somehow this caused David slowly lost trust from Prof.

Of course, Megan came back. She was a mystery and a good influence toward David character actually. Most of the times I could not understand her, but like David I believed she was a good guy. The romance between them was also more believable.

The interesting part of the story was always finding out the mystery. Babilar had so many secrets. It was a city mostly drowned in water. Among the wreckage of the city, there were glowing plants coiling around the buildings. Regalia herself drowned the city with her power of water manipulation and she was hidden somewhere without anyone knew her location. There was also another Epic called Obliteration suddenly visited that city. From the name itself, David kinda guessed that Obliteration wanted to obliterate the city.

The action parts are always the best. This series really feels like a movie. And that ending... I'm excited to read the next book. 

4/5