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Elantris (Elantris, #1)

Brandon Sanderson

Why we're reading this: For fans of The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown
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Sep 16, 2019 Sara Gabai rated it it was amazing

It seems Sanderson's style is to have a slow beginning. But in the middle of this book, the pace starts to be faster. Much faster. A very good book. ...more

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Jun 12, 2017 Lgordo rated it it was ok

I really wanted to like this, but somehow couldn't manage it.

Everything bugged me, from the simplicity of interactions to the inconsistency of the language, the absurdity of the idea that cleaning a wall could rescue someone from blinding pain, and the reality that the final fix should have been blindingly obvious to at least a few Elantrian scholars. And the stock characters. I thought sword-wielding feminist princesses who convert the giggling women of the court was a teen YA staple, not an a ...more

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Aug 30, 2020 Gabi Aharonov rated it really liked it

Nice book, but as I've read some of his other work, I can see that as a writer he has grown a lot.

CW: fighting scenes, death, illness, poverty ...more

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Apr 17, 2021 Tovah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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[Listened to audiobook] The narrator was great with accents and terrible with sentence pacing.

This was a good story. Far less complex than his later series. The main characters were likable despite/because of their flaws.

(I’m writing this review a few months late, so I don’t remember what else I wanted to say.)

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