# Steelheart

**Author(s):** Brandon Sanderson
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/steelheart-9wzg9l/verdict.json
**Genres:** fantasy, young-adult, urban-fantasy, sci-fi, middle-grade
**Publisher:** Delacorte Press
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780385743563
**ISBN-10:** 0385743564
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/steelheart-9wzg9l

## SageChimp reader verdict

Steelheart has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 2.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/steelheart-9wzg9l/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Revenge

## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★ (Untitled) — kristin
I wanted to like this book. As a longtime lover of the super hero genre, I couldn't imagine not liking this book. But after the fantastic prologue, I did not enjoy one moment of this book. It goes without saying that Sanderson is a superb author. There is no lacking in skill here. Rather it is the descriptive style that turned me off. To me, this book was all style and no heart. I did not feel invested in or attached to any of the characters, but rather spent time being bored at yet another acti