Elantris by Brandon Sanderson Recommended for: Readers interested in worldbuilding that focuses on religion I first read Elantris soon after it came out, when Sanderson was still unknown and unremarked. In my library, it didn't even make the "new books" shelf and was immediately relegated to the fan...
I liked this book, I found the characters likeable but somewhat static, and the dialog has a lot of yelping but is otherwise believable. There are a number of sub-plot stubs left unexplored, perhaps as possible starting points for other tales set in the same world. The main plots move at a comfortab...
An interesting read. Up to 10 years ago Elantris was paradise, a beautiful city where the people were chosen by chance and something called the Shoad, which struck some people of Arelon suddenly and transformed them into beings with power, that glowed and who could perform miracles and who lived in...
Some interesting ideas here, but internal inconsistencies and some gauche phrasing kept throwing me out of the story. It reads at times like a really young writer. Won't be running right out to get his other books.
Elantris is beautiful and vile and real and lovey--all at the same time. It took me a while to finish because sometimes it weighed down on me: royal politics and unfamiliar names I had to get used to. It's been a while since I've read a good fantasy book, but this is one world I would definitely lik...
Mr. Sanderson does here what he does best - he builds an interesting world, populated with complex characters, and a magic system that the reader can buy into. This is actually the first book of his I ever read, and is the reason I went ahead and started to read the Mistborn series. This book deal...
I read this novel because Brandon Sanderson was going to complete the Wheel of Time series, which I'll eventually get around to completing, so I wanted to get more familiar with his style. The end result was that I was absolutely blown away by this spellbinding, magnificently woven tale.Elantris, th...
As a stand-alone, this story has one too many open endings. Probably Sanderson's way of securing a way to turn it into a series, if readers' response turned out to be favorable. I see what you did there and also continue to do in later books. [ETA: 05/17] He is planning a sequel that takes place t...
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