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[Rose]

Right, so this is a book I've really wanted to read, but I live in the ass end of nowhere, so I can't get a physical copy. That leaves the internet.

Some searching reveals there's an audio-book version that has full sound effects and proper voice actors. sounds interesting. 19 hours the whole thing. hrm.

Right, so I have it now.

And I've listened to the first hour.

here are my thoughts.

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Starts out describing, in vivid detail, describing, in vivid detail, a Demon, encased in osidian, as he comes back to life and escapes. seems rather dwarfy, but a bit cliched, especially the description. very generic sounding demon. Sanderson, I am disappoint.

"And now for out feature presentation"

Oh, phew. I was worried there.

Right, book starts out with describing how random people in this country are being  chosen, every so often, to be transformed into some kind of super-being, immortal, good looking, regenerate wounds quickly, the whole deal. oops, that ended 10 years ago.

now we got a prince here. nice guy, just got up, feeling really hungry. first person who sees him screams in terror and runs away. turns out he's been 'chosen' and now he's a zombie. he's dumped into what used to be the blessed city, and left to rot. funeral services are held, he's written off as dead.

Now the prince is locked in the cursed city, and soon finds out that there's no food there, and he will live in there, forever. stub your toe? too bad, you're gonna be stuck with it... forever. only way to die is by being burned 'alive', if you can call it that, and even then, there's differing opinions on what happens. well that sucks.

Scene shift!

We are now following a princess, who, by the way, has a voice actress I don't like. far too hauty-tauty. Anyways, she was supposed to marry the prince, and she was already engaged.

Oh, by the way, there's a clause in the marriage saying that if one party dies, you're automatically legally married.

so now she'd a widow. shame, really, he seemed like a nice guy. not often you get that in political marriages.

At least the king should be okay, right?



The king is a sexist prick, and sends her off to "go knit or whatever it is that you women do"

Also, he's rather not really upset at all about his son's recent death.

And the Queen just babbles incessantly about everything, refusing to actually get into a conversation, other than making sure the princess wears black in mourning.

Scene Shift!

He is the high Priest of the Imperium. It is his divine calling to bring the light of god to these heathens, for their own good. he has a month to do it, or they will be purged.

That's... all there is to say about him.

And that's the first hour done. I probably won't listen to another tonight, but this is looking good so far. the voice acting is good, on a whole, as are the sound effects.

I'll write further as I get through the book.

[Rose]

Also, I'm seeing a very definite style here, where the author introduces all the main players in the first chapter, even if they aren't gonna meet till more than half-way through the book. not a bad thing, just a comment that it's recognizable.

[Zrk2]

I read the Mistborn Trilogy, is Elantris worth reading as well?

[Rose]

So far, it seems yes, but I'm only one hour in.

[Duke 2.0]

 It's like a live-action book club. I actually wouldn't mind somebody streaming an audiobook while we make snide comments in a chat program.

[Rose]

Right got through the next section.

Continues with Big Priest Guy. First thing he does when he takes office is fire the old priest. also we learn that he really does want to avoid as much bloodshed as possible, and his country is going to invade if he fails. reminds me of avatar a bit.

Scene shift back to zombie prince, where we learn more about life in zombie-town. There's three local gangs, but nobody fights if they don't have to, because nobody heals.

Also, ZP's guide, who's a zombie big black guy, is revealed to be able to do magic, much to ZP's surprise.

BPG tries converting the king, king refuses, not believing that the armies backing BPG are any good. he's wrong, but whatevs. we'll see what happens later.

Window Princess and BPG meet each other from opposite sides of the throne room, BPG realizes that WP will prove more troublesome than the rest of the court put together, and WP, for her part, recognizes BPG to be a greater threat than a misogynist father-in-law, and concentrates her mechanisms on him. we don't yet find out what those are, yet, but I assume she is capable.

[ChairmanPoo]

TBH I found Elantris to be entertaining, but obviously amateurish. You can tell it's the guy's first novel.

[Rose]

Perhaps, but I've run out of books of his to read, so II'm reading this.


also, the streaming thing was a goood idea, I might do that, but I'm not sure if I should start from the beginning for that.