I couldn’t believe that I had never heard of this series before, but then again I know that there are so many books out there that I haven’t heard of yet, that are just waiting for me to explore their worlds. This book was one of the most amazing stories I have ever read. Throughout the book, he realizes that things aren’t always black and white, and his belief is tested even more than it was in the first book. But his track record has proven to the world that he is very capable at doing his job, which to him is killing Epics. In fact, he’s actually younger than I am, which was probably why I thought that some of his thought processes seemed almost juvenile. I didn’t realize it until much later on in the book that he really wasn’t that much older than I expected. It’s okay though, and I definitely don’t regret it.ĭavid, the protagonist in the story, is one that I found very amusing and very frustrating at the same time. In this case, I read this book as part of a GoodReads buddy read, so I didn’t have much time to read the first book before this one started. That is very important to me when I read a book series out of order, especially if I don’t realize it until it’s too late. This book is the second in The Reckoners trilogy, and while I wish I had read the first book before I read this, I wasn’t completely lost going through it. Those were the Reckoners, and they would do whatever they could to hold back the Epic plague, and bring peace back to Earth. But with coming of the Epics came something that could help turn the tide, help those who who still had some humanity left in them find a way to fight back. All we do know, is that with Calamity came the birth of strange beings with powers called Epics, and some of them were out for blood.

What that means exactly, some still don’t know to this day. The world is not the same as it used to be. Discovering that Prof was both … it had been like discovering that Santa Claus was secretly a Nazi. I’d grown up practically worshipping the Reckoners, all the while loathing the Epics.

Firefight by Brandon Sanderson