Steelheart

Halfway through reading the prologue, I stopped and searched for something else to read. ‘Young Adult' literature is too saccharin sweet for me. Comic book heroes and villains are absurdly over-the-top and unbelievable. It was easy to see that this book would ignore all the laws of nature and science - and I prefer stories that are more believable.

Didn't have anything better to read, so I decided to suffer through the first chapter. I still don't know how the author did it, but he kept my interest to the end. Somehow, his writing made me ignore all the story elements that typically turn me off.