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Elantris

By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
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Publisher's summary

Legendary science fiction author Orson Scott Card calls Brandon Sanderson a writer to watch.

Once the godlike rulers of the capital of Arelon, the inhabitans of Elantris have been imprisoned within themselves, unable to die after the city's magic failed years ago. But when a new prince falls victim to the curse, he refuses to accept his fate.

©2005, 2015 Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC. (P)2008 Recorded Books,LLC

Critic reviews

"...readers won't want to put it down." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Outstanding." ( Publisher's Weekly)

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Teenagers novel?

The plot is fine but the characters are shallow and the dialogs are superficial. Disappointed.

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great story

Elantris has deep believable characters, a unique but relatable setting, an interesting magic system and is beautifully written.

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narrator sounds like zapp brannigan

narrator sounds like zapp brannigan from futurama, i just cant listen without hearing it :(

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so good!!

I've read this book twice and loved it. this production added so much to it. the story is intense, interesting, surprising, and full of intriguing characters. definitely worth it!

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incredible narration

the reader cannot be exceeded in talent. made a good book extraordinary as it should be with an audio book

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One Irritating Thing

I've been a fan of Brandon Sanderson for a couple years now, and never managed to pick this book up. I love the storyline, and the narrating was pretty good. However, whoever edited this edition put the chapter titles immediately following the last word in the sentance of the previous chapter with zero pause. It's like "And now I've left you with a significant idea which should be contemplatedCHAPTER TWELVE". It's a little picky, but it was terribly irritating.

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Slow start, but worth it!

I’ve read (listened) to a lot of his books so I naturally gave this one a try. It starts really slow and really depressing to be up front, but hang in there. As usually his characters are well developed and you are eventually really engaged and as always with Mr. Sanderson waiting for the next turn of events. It was worth it in the end and hopefully another one down the way!👍🏻

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great narrerator, good story, kinda slow.

not one of Sandersons best books but a great story, I have yet to be disappointed by anything from Sanderson. story constant builds upon itself.

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Decent Sanderson story

Story kind of heard to follow at some points and can use a second longer break between moving to a new chapter. Also, 2 out of 3 of the main characters are so perfect and full of themselves that it's not even fun to listen to their stories because they practically make no mistakes of worth to add suspense to the plot and get what they want almost as soon as they want it

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Immersive, enthralling

It took some time to get into the book but once I did I was hooked. This book doesn't quite live up to the quality of storytelling from a technical aspect as Sandersons later books, but it is just as magical, with surprising twists abound.

The technical issues are an abundance of similar sounding terminology making it hard to keep up with what means what, and this is the same for character names. Even near the end I found myself struggling to place a name with a side character because they all sound very similar.

However, this was Sandersons first published novel in the cosmere so his writing skill was flawed, however despite that I still found myself captivated and looking forward to the next time Id have a chance to listen to it

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