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Fight the Power

September 15, 2016 by Malin 6 Comments

Because it’s been nearly a month since I finished this book (yay, backlogs!) and because the blurb does a good job of summing up the story, I’m going to resort to Goodreads: Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came a desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will. Nobody fights […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: adventure, brandon sanderson, CBR8, Malin, paranormal fantasy, Steelheart, supervillains, the reckoners, Young Adult

Malin's CBR8 Review No:98 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: adventure, brandon sanderson, CBR8, Malin, paranormal fantasy, Steelheart, supervillains, the reckoners, Young Adult ·
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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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