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Loading... The Hope of Elantris (Elantris, #1.5) (edition 2006)by Brandon Sanderson
Work InformationThe Hope of Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Solid 4 stars. Fast short story/novella with a sweet background story! Gives depth to Elantris. ( ) 2.5 stars. I knew of the postsript before reading this novella and, with all honesty, that influenced my rating positively by half star. I found totally cool what Brandon did. The novella per se was barely interesting to me. I was not interested in Matisse, the main character, nor the children. In my experience, I have noticed that novellas work for me if the characters are already introduced in a "canon" book and I had the time to get a connection with those characters. Novellas are in general too short for me to grow fond of new characters. I was expecting more a short anedcote focused on Sarene, Raodem and Ashe in New Elantris. However, it was nice to go back to elantris even for a few pages after so many years I have read the book. I noticed I also like its magic system with seons resembling somehow sprens of the stormlight archive. I hope we can come back to Elantris soon. A nice little story for what it is, especially since it's free on his website. The annotation also makes it even sweeter. This story gives me some hope (that there might be a sequel) and its always great to read more background. I'm glad I got to read at least a little bit more about Elantris before moving on to other things. no reviews | add a review
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Notes From The Author: The following is a short story I wrote in the Elantris world back in January of 2006. At that point, Elantris had only been out in stores for about seven or eight months, but I actually hadn't written anything new on the story or world since 2000, when I'd finished the first draft of the original book. There were always a few holes in the manuscript where I decided not to include viewpoints or sections of explanation in the name of streamlining, particularly at the end. In the back of my mind, I knew what happened. This story talks about one of those holes; it is meant to be read after you've finished the novel and takes place during the events of the climax. In the annotation, I've written a further explanation of why I wrote this piece. Some of you may find it interesting to read this ahead of time; I put it in the annotation, however, as I know others would rather enjoy the story without bias beforehand, then read my thoughts afterward. Either way, if you haven't listened to Elantris, this contains major spoilers. Might I suggest listening to the book first? This story won't work at all for you if you haven't. No library descriptions found. |
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