I can't wait to see what will come our way in the next ten.First off, since I haven’t done a book review since May, I am going to add a few more books that I really have been wanting to share with you on SGL.
The backstory and mystery surrounding Elantris and Elantrians pulled me in early and kept me interested until the end.īrandon has an interesting talent for making magic feel like science without sucking the wonder out of it. While the magic system is quite different, it felt logical that it came from the same mind that gave us Allomancy. I couldn't avoid seeing the roots of Mistborn characters or themes in this book. That's a gross oversimplification of course. I liked it a bit more than Alloy of Law, but a bit less than the original Mistborn trilogy. That said, I liked Elantris a heck of a lot. Unavoidably, I have a somewhat skewed perspective of this work. By the time I got around to reading Elantris it was the 10th Anniversary Edition, and I had already read the Mistborn books (through Alloy of Law). My introduction to Sanderson's work was the Mistborn series. I never read the original release of Elantris. In other words, it's a Brandon Sanderson book :). The Short Version: Interesting concept, clever well-constructed magic system wrapped up in a solid story. the Evil Librarians seriesĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Sanderson fans old and new will be excited to discover it. It deserves this special treatment, something Tor has done only once before, with Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. This new edition begins with a preface by author Dan Wells, the first person to read the completed novel, and a new afterword by Sanderson explaining how he came to write the book and its place in the Cosmere, the unified universe of all his Tor novels.Īlso included is an expanded version of the "Ars Arcanum" appendix, with more of the technical details of the book's magic that fans can never get enough of.Įlantris was truly a milestone both for Sanderson and for the genre of epic fantasy. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Tor is reissuing Elantris in a special edition, a fresh chance to introduce it to the myriad readers who have since become Sanderson fans. In 2005, Brandon Sanderson debuted with Elantris, an epic fantasy unlike any other then on the market.
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