Firefight, the second volume in Brandon Sanderson’s young adult Reckoners book trilogy, out recently from Delacorte Press, has debuted at #1 on the January 25 New York Times Young Adult Bestseller List! Congrats to Brandon and his team on the top placement and for what is, by most reader accounts, a relentlessly exciting and surprising apocalyptic superhero sequel.
Firefight picks up after the consequences of Steelheart:
They told David it was impossible, that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet Steelheart—invincible, immortal, unconquerable—is dead. And he died by David’s hand.
Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life simpler. Instead, it only made David realize he has questions. Big ones. And no one in Newcago can give him answers.
Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan, has possibilities, though. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic Regalia, Babylon Restored is flooded and miserable, but David is sure it’s the path that will lead him to what he needs to find: Firefight.
But what is Calamity, the source of all the Epics power (and the title to the forthcoming concluding volume in the trilogy)? Could the answer to that lay within the pages of Firefight? You can ask Brandon on his Firefight tour right now!
I got this the day it came out. Fantastic read, and a worthy sequel to Steelheart. Some intersting new relevations, temptations, and a surprise ending I didn’t see coming (but still made total sense). A great book!
I swear that Tor has done more PR for this non-Tor book than Random House has. If you go to the Random House page, it is like this book does not exist.
Shows you who Brandon’s true supporters are.
Sanderson going #1 helps Tor more than anyone else, other than Brandon of course. Its definitely in their best interest to keep the Sanderson train rolling along.
Well-deserved #1, too!
I agree with Walker @2 – Random Penguin didn’t do a great job of promoting this one. They didn’t even manage to get the tour schedule out until about a week before it happened, which made it hard for people to plan. Do they not know what they have here?
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Since 70-90% of his work is going to Tor, he might not rate the sort of publicity push from Random House that he gets from Macmillan. The individual books are probably less important than the author’s brand. I’m sure they’d rather devote resources to big authors whose next three books are also coming out by them. Better ROI.
Of course, that being said, Random House is never going to GET more of his work if they don’t try harder.
I found David slightly annoying in Steelheart. Which was frustrating becauses I really loved the premise. I say now without reservation that Firefight was a giant step forward. The characters were more solid the story was compelling. And the ending was satisfyingly insideous.