11.1k reviews for:

Elantris

Brandon Sanderson

4.11 AVERAGE

mr_xerx's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous hopeful mysterious 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: Yes

kafkasleep's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

rainbolt's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous medium-paced

monirgzz's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

dmanjones's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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: Complicated

rileyglassett's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

thirzaisreading's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

nick_millsap's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

majaholic's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

aedod's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious tense fast-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

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This book was the real deal. Incredible world building, extraordinary unique concept, compelling characters. An epic battle: of political and religious warfare, with very little actual fighting. The religious warfare bit and its resolutions were very intriguing knowing Sanderson’s own faith. 

I LOVED this book and could not put it down. I can’t believe this is regarded as his “weakest” work. (In fact, the lack of drawn out action scenes made the book better imo, I get so bored reading those) Only small nit is that the climactic points in the story were one liners, would have liked to stay in those moments for longer!