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Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

55 reviews

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Started off slow but by the time I got to the end I was invested.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Genocide, Sexism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Slavery and Suicide

lisavandonselaar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

badbadwolf's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

dionysius_miller's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, and Blood

Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Alcohol

mels_booknook's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

Overall I really enjoyed this one! Loved the splash of romance and the intertwined storylines. It had a lot of religious and political aspects which I liked but also was hard to follow at times. Overall it was a great fantasy and had a crazy ending true to Sanderson fashion. And the audio was great.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

Romance: kisses

aleyajo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

It’s Brandon Sanderson, it’s gonna be good. Some stuff was predictable for Brandon, Dilaf was also a bit too caricature-evil. Good romance, not to ton of action. Excellent world building. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Torture, and Blood

elwh's review against another edition

4.25

I really ate through this book after getting into it. Great worldbuilding and a unique premise. I was happy to predict certain parts, and it was fun to speculate as I listened. The writing’s easy to follow, and the characters are well-defined and easy to like. I wish many of the descriptions had more detail rather than referring to broad notions and vibes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Suicide

simmonsj's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

After reading Mistborn Era 1, I could definitely tell Elantris was Sanderson's debut novel. Elantris moves slower, less descriptive in some areas and a little too descriptive in others, but maintains good world building and characters throughout. 

Elantris is more a focus on politics. We have a king failing, a prince shunned, a political marriage gone awry, and a neighboring country vying for power through religion. There are political maneuvers, political bribes, politics and religion getting mushed together.

In the background we have Elantris. Elantris was a great fallen city with an interesting premise. The city and its people are well described. The magic of Elantris, AonDor, is not as well described - better at the very end, but not really during the book as a whole. There are some Aon examples at the back of the book, but sometimes the ones described in the text are not in the index. Some of the text descriptions do not match the index drawings either. It was a little bit of a struggle to wade through AonDor passages until the end when things finally started clicking.

The niggle about the magic system aside, I really enjoyed this book. Good writing, plotting, and world building kept me entertained even though I don't always enjoy politics-heavy novels. Characters were fleshed out and believable, and Galladon's "Doloken" might be my new favorite book "swear word."

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Death, Violence, and Death of parent

teyn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I'm conflicted on this one. The story was amazing, but soooo many unchallenged problematic biases seeped into the world-building.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Death, Suicide, and Violence

mkaiww's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Gore, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Genocide, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Grief, Cannibalism, and Death of parent