I just started the book today at lunch.  Pretty interesting premise so far.  A red comet appeared in the sky, sometime after that, people started developing powers (not all people, just some).  None of the people stepped up to become heroes though.  Something about the power corrupted them, and they all became villains.  The titular character, Steelheart, took over as emperor of Chicago.

One of the points it made was that fighting against the epics (what the setting calls them) was pretty much useless, so the government pass legislation that made epics outside of the law.  So they could do whatever they want.  Which they pretty much could anyway, and that's why the law was written.

haven't read it yet thinking of trying

Display Name wrote on Aug 31^st, 2014 at 5:26pm:


I think he actually wrote the last two books, using Jordan's left behind notes.

Personally thought he did a great job of emulating Jordan's style.