The #1 New York Times bestseller that James Dashner called ??fantastic???? with ??relentless?? suspense and an ??explosive?? climax from Brandon Sanderson?? the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance?? coauthor of Robert Jordan??s The Wheel of Time series?? and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn trilogy. And don??t miss the rest of the Reckoners series: Firefight and Calamity.
?? How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father?
?? If someone destroyed your city?
?? If everything you ever loved was taken from you?
?? David Charleston will go to any lengths to stop Steelheart. But to exact revenge in Steelheart??s world?? David will need the Reckoners?a shadowy group of rebels bent on maintaining justice.
?? And it "the Reckoners might just need David too.
?? Look for book two in the Reckoners series?? Firefight?? available now.
Q. Brandon youre perhaps best known for your adult booksMistborn The Way of Kings and particularly for finishing Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time series. However recently youve undertaken several projects for younger readers. Why is that? How does it feel to be entering into the world of YA fiction? How does it differ from writing for an adult audience? How do you possibly think you can compete with your friend James Dashner?
A. I've known this guy James Dashner for so long and he was such an inspiration to me and I thought if this joker can do it then I can too! The sci-fi/fantasy genre is what made a reader out of me and it has a long history of crossing the line between YA and adult fiction. For example you mentioned The Wheel of Time. In the early books the main protagonists are all teenagers. Are these books YA? The publishers don't classify them that way. Theyre shelved with the adult fantasy books. Books like that have influenced me in that some of the stories I tell fit into the mold that society says will package well as YA books. Other stories I tell?that are a thousand pages long?don??t seem to fit that mold. But I don??t sit down and say?? ??I??m writing for a teen audience now. I need to change my entire style.?? Instead?? I say?? ??This project and the way I??m writing it feels like it would work well for a teen audience.??
Q. In previous interviews?? you??ve mentioned that you come up with characters?? worlds?? and