Calamity was my least favorite in the series. At least the characters stopped pointing out the bad metaphors that David kept spewing even though he tragically kept saying them. When the metaphors stand on their own, they were less annoying and sometimes even a little funny. David spent an annoying amount of time in denial about ... Read More »
Book Review: Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
Firefight had more gimmicky metaphors, like Steelheart did, with unnecessary attention drawn to them. I very thoroughly marked all of the awkward metaphors in my book. Like when the main character, David, said he's "intense like a lion is orange (pg 115)" to another character named Mizzy. They spent half a page arguing about what ... Read More »
Book Review: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
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. The idea behind all the superheroes being bad is that ... Read More »
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