Steelheart
Readers rate it 4.1 (1.1K on Hardcover)
386 pages · Released 2013 · Delacorte Press
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Steelheart is a well-known YA dystopian thriller centered on a protagonist seeking revenge against a supervillain who killed his father. The book contains action sequences and combat typical of its genre, with some deaths and tension, but violence is not graphically depicted. Themes include loss, justice, and moral ambiguity in a world without traditional heroes, making it best suited for teens old enough to engage with those concepts.
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There are no heroes, only villains. My father believed that a hero was going to step in, and he died for that belief. Steelheart killed him for seeing that he had a weakness, and no one knows I saw. Now I've spent years getting their weaknesses, and plotting my revenge. There are no heroes, only villains. My father believed that a hero was going to step in, and he died for that belief. Steelheart killed him for seeing that he had a weakness, and no one knows I saw. Now I've spent years getting their weaknesses, and plotting my revenge.
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- fantasy
- young adult
- urban
- Guerrilla warfare
- Science fiction
- Juvenile fiction
- Supervillains
- Fiction
- Children's fiction
- Adventure and adventurers, fiction
- War, fiction
- Assassins
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ISBN 9780385743563 · Delacorte Press