Book Summary: Steelheart By Brandon Sanderson

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Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson.
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson is a fiction novel about a kid named David. An epic, something like a superhero, killed David’s father and David will go to the end of the world to gain revenge on his father’s death. Sanderson mainly focuses around dystopian and fictional novels. such as well known authors such as James Dashner and Suzanne Collins. This book takes play in a city called newcago which is most likely present day Chicago. The world has no light thanks to the epic named Calamity after everything turned bad he cut the light out from the city.

David about 10 yrs. after his dad has been shot and killed he has devoted all of his time working in a factory and studying more and more about almost all

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