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Aug 20, 2016ADWithrow rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I was sucked into this series immediately with Steelheart. I loved the idea of super-heroes that weren't heroes, and were actually the bad guys. I loved the intensity of the plot and the planning that went into taking down Steelheart. Firefight kept the ball rolling for me, but lost some of the specialness of this series. Regalia was boring and, though I liked Babilar, the plot there didn't keep me engaged. This book just absolutely abandoned everything that I had loved about the Reckoners. This was set up so beautifully with the reveal at the end of Firefight that Calamity was another epic. This should have been an incredible showdown, but it wasn't. The whole thing focused on saving Prof and got hopelessly bogged down in the mechanics of Megan's powers. Half the book was David wondering how her powers worked! That whole aspect of the plot could have, and should, have been limited to a side note. Rather, it become the whole shebang. Prof was utterly boring as a supposedly super High Epic. He was predictable and barely intriguing at all. Everything he did was easy to spot coming and, as a result, there was no tension in this book. Steelheart had you on the edge of your seat the whole time but this book barely got me to sit up. An Calamity. Jesus what a wasted opportunity. He basically just lays down an disappears after witnessing the majesty of the love between parent and child. Really? 10+ years of utter hatred for humanity and suddenly he gets it? He never noticed the love between parent and child in all the years he spent fiddling with humanity? And the ending. Utterly uninspired and a total let down. The only reason this gets two stars instead of one is Knighthawk. His character, and the banter between him and others, was fun at least. Really disappointed here. This was a massive letdown after all the build up of the first two in the series. The whole idea of this, those who should be heroes being the evil villians, was totally lost along the way. The plot got muddied with alternate dimensions and Megan's powers. There was no suspense, no intensity, nothing in this that resembled Steelheart at all.