Brandon Sanderson
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| Original Title: | Elantris |
| ISBN: | 0765350378 (ISBN13: 9780765350374) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Elantris #1, The Cosmere |
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Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling.Arelon's new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping -- based on their correspondence -- to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god.
But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself.
A rare epic fantasy that doesn't recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It's also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.
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| Title | : | Elantris (Elantris #1) |
| Author | : | Brandon Sanderson |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 638 pages |
| Published | : | May 30th 2006 by Tor Fantasy (first published May 1st 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy. Adult. Magic. Audiobook |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 160147 Users | 9608 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books Elantris (Elantris #1)
3.5/5 StarsExactly 3 months ago, I finished binge reading the two available books in the Stormlight Archive series, Brandon Sandersons magnum opus and my favorite series of all time. By that time, I already caught up to all Sandersons Cosmere works (excluding novellas) except his debut work, Elantris. Today, I finished it and in my opinion, its a great debut novel but at the same time its also Sandersons weakest Cosmeres book. Once you read all his other books, its really clear that this is hisReview number 2Having just finished re-reading the first ever stand alone Brandon Sanderson novel I ever read it struck me how my view of the book has changed. Of course I always knew it was likely to happen. The flaws and pacing of the text were far more noticeable. That does not mean I did not enjoy the book all over again, I simply analysed it to a far greater extent.The flaws of Elantris are to put it simply a slow and uneven pacing, the occasion lapse of characterisation, the fact that some
Oh, Elantris, why must you torture me so? Why must you force me into conflict with the library, my favorite dealer? They claim I owe them, and they aren't going to leave me alone. I'm afraid to go to the corner dropbox at night in case a librarian is lurking. I've stubbornly held onto their copy of Elantris hoping that I would become inspired to re-read and provide a more thorough review. Alas, no. You will have to read my generalized dislike instead of many specific examples. For no clear
Its not his weakest work. I'd put it far ahead of anything else I've read of his."What have you read then? :)
I really enjoyed this book a lot. It's very different from how Sanderson builds up his stories in later novels (the plot took off on page two, but I'm used to him spending some time building his characters and worlds before expecting us to run next to them). The first half was pretty difficult for me to connect to and I thought I'd be rating this lower, but the second half was a RIDE and I couldn't stop reading. The city of Elantris is very interesting and the characters took me a while to fall
Oh my God this is so contrary to my usual love of shorter novels.Okay so I knew that I had missed something in my review pot, I just realized now that I had missed this book.But there is a Persian saying that says "the fish is fresh whenever you catch it from the water", so let's go with that. This book is very different, but then again it is Brandon Sanderson, so anything less would be shocking. Elantris is simply said a rather ecstatically unique book, that creates a world beyond the usual
I think it's only fitting, considering whose book this is, that I tweaked review of it dozen of times.Hopefully, this is the last version. It cant be helped. No matter despised one of his books or loved it - by the end of reading - Ill get annoyed at Brandon.Is it ego, delusion of grandeur or just a case of plainful laziness that drove him to mercilessly squeeze so many ideas from this book and simply repeat them in all of his other series I have read?If Ive never read Elantris I would probably
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