A new team of Reckoners must infiltrate the flying city of Lux to take down the Epic Lifeforce in this audio-exclusive novel from Brandon Sanderson.

When the great red star Calamity appeared in the sky, some believed the end had come. They were right.

Calamity created the Epics: humans with incredible powers they didn’t deserve.

They could have saved mankind. They could have lifted us into harmony and prosperity. Instead they burned. They slaughtered. They conquered. And then they ruled.

Jax has learned all of this the hard way. Orphaned at an early age, he’s spent most of his childhood training to be a Reckoner – determined to find the Epics’ weaknesses, unlock their secrets, and protect those of us who are still left.

But now, the mysterious High Epic Lifeforce has arrived with his flying city, Lux, to plunder what’s left of Texas. So Jax and his ragtag team – the few who remain of the once-mighty Texas Reckoners – must take their battle to this floating fortress of riches – and defeat the invincible.

To avenge what has been lost. And rise anew.

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How was it?

I read The Reckoners novels some time ago; although I was wasn’t very impressed by Calamity I jumped at the opportunity to read this one, not even trying to figure out what it was about. So going in blind, I spent too much time trying to figure out when this story was taking place in the series. I was connecting more events and characters than was necessary instead of just enjoying what turned out to be a somewhat stand alone story, connected to the previous books.

From the start this book feels like a return to form, it’s more in line with Steelheart, Mitosis and Firefight, without the weird shift from Calamity. It’s the reckoners against the Epics, amazing motivator tech and face paced action. Jax, the main character, did get on my nerves because I could see him make mistakes as they were happening and it was driving me nuts. So as much as his reckless behavior annoyed me, it makes him humain and fallible and I liked that in the end. The Texas team feels like the original team in some ways but they’re kind of unique. There’s a romantic connection in this story that I didn’t think was necessary at all but it doesn’t impede the story.

This Texas reckoners novel is well structured and it shows, there are a few things that are set up throughout that come to fruition later on, my only problem with that is that I could see them coming and anticipated quite a few things. It sucked some of the excitement out of a chunk of the novel because there were little to no surprises for me. However I’m still proud of myself for figuring out the Epics’ weaknesses well in advance because of that heavy ended foreshadowing. Even the Steelheart cameo wasn’t a total surprise, because I expected one from a high epic we already knew and the big deal that was made about the thing the character that’s connected to Steelheart has clued me in. The cameo was a bit of a retcon for me but I liked it. In fact, I first suspected the Californian to be Obliteration but that might be because MacLeod Andrews used the a similar voice for both.

Lux is fun to listen to, it stitches itself to the whole reckoners series well with this story ending at the same time as Calamity while suggesting there might be more to come. If there’s a sequel I suspect Obliteration will feature as well since I think he’s still alive.

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