The Hope of Elantris
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend “The Hope of Elantris” is an attempt to fill in one of the holes in the sequence of events in ELANTRIS. When New Elantris is attacked near the end of the book, all of the primary viewpoint characters are absent, and the reader can only hear of the assault via third-hand references. This short story shows what actually happened from the view of one who was there. It's meant to be read along with the book,… Product details and pricing info |
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2 Customer Reviews Posted
- It should have . . . .
- This short piece or 'chapter', as it could have been, wonderfully explained how others had been dealing with the attack while Raoden was bringing the light back to Elantris.
Now, this would have been a lot better if only it had been IN the book. I realize it had been written seven years before publication and he didn't get the feedback until after it was published.
So considering everything I give it a 4/5. - 2008-08-05, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Not bad, but not great
- Granted, at less than half a dollar it's hard to complain, and to see a short little jag scribbled by the author of one of my favorite books is very interesting, but this short still falls a little flat.
For fifty cents, I'm not expecting professional editing, but there are unforgivable typos and grammatical mistakes in this piece that could have been rooted out with a little proofreading.
The chance to "peek" at Sanderson's "notebook" is very enticing and the short tale makes a neat supplement to Elantris. I'm even tempted to go back and reread the original work in order to refresh my memory on some of the plot points touched on by this short. This piece feels consistent with Elantris, making me suspect that it was written at the same time, but discarded since none of the PoV characters was present.
3 stars because it's half decent and you can't beat the price. At a higher price point I'd have been disappointed. Still, would a second or third read-through by the author to fix heinous errors have been too much to ask?
A side note: Amazon's online reader seems to underline text that should be italicized. I'm not faulting the author for this apparent technical problem, but I haven't read any other shorts here yet so I don't know whether maybe I should. - 2007-08-08, 9 of 10 people found this review helpful, Rated:
