![]() ![]() ![]() Raoden’s attempts to restore life to the post-apocalytpic dystopian society is admirable. The physical descriptions are vivid and quite disgusting, and the events happening within the fallen city, to me, are possibly the most interesting part of the story. Elantris, following the fall, is left in various states of decay, sectioned off from the rest of the land, and covered in slime. Sanderson’s settings are often disordered, both physciallyand politically. Elantrians are a people who kept a record of everything that ever happened in the world and no one thought to consider the giant rift in the land to be the cause? Then one day it fell apart, the gods lost their powers and became cursed, and yet no one could figure out what happened or how to restore the magic. It might have to do with the uneven pacing and one-dimensional characters, with the exception of a certain gyorn.Įlantris is a city of magic, living gods, and very few logical explanations. I don’t know what it is about this book that just didn’t click with me, so I’ll attempt to work out some thoughts here. I’ve always found Sanderson’s interpretation of magic and religion fascinating and that’s the only thing that kept me pushing on to the end. ![]() ![]() I see what you did there… and continue to do in later books. Probably Sanderson’s way of securing a way to turn it into a series, if readers’ response turned out to be favorable, that is. As a stand-alone, this story has one too many open endings. ![]()
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