Elantris - Brandon Sanderson

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 3 9:49

Once upon a time, in this place called Elantris, there was this thing called the Shaod. People argued for years if it was pronounced Shaowd, Showed or Sha-Odd. Regardless, this was not the interesting thing about the Shaod. It was like a disease, but instead of making you get weird bumps on your privates, it made you a super-wizard. You could kill buffalo with mind-bullets, paint a house with mind-brushes...pretty much anything with mind-anythings. So some day, for no reason (psst, there's a reason, but I can't tell you what it is), the Shaod stopped making people super-wizards and instead made them crap-zombies. They couldn't die, but they were covered in shit and ugly as fuck. So the people put anyone who got the Shaod in Elantris. This is the story of a prince who became a crap-zombie a...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Feb 22 10:28

“Elantris” is the debut novel by Brandon Sanderson. It is a stand-alone fantasy story. Here is a brief description from Booklist found on Amazon.Com: --- Until 10 years ago, Elantris was the capital of Arelon, inhabited by ordinary humans transformed into magic-using demigods by the Shaod. But the magic failed, Elantris started to rot, and its inhabitants turned into powerless wrecks. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives in Kae, the new capital, close enough to Elantris to constantly remind of faded glory, prepared for a marriage to ally Teod and Arelon against the religious imperialists of Fjordell. But, she is told, her fiancée, Prince Raoden, is dead. She and a recently arrived high priest of Fjordell, Hrathen, clash. Sarene tries to retain the freedom of Teod and Arelon, Hrat...Read more

Rating : 7/10