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# The Emperor's Soul (Elantris Book 2) Kindle Edition

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Brandon Sanderson Is Brilliant, Short Story Or Doorstopper
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2015*

Brandon Sanderson, popular author of various epic fantasy works can certainly be called “prolific”. He has, in just a few short years, written numerous books. Some short novellas, but most lengthy novels – between about 600 to 1,000 pages long – each of which usually take a couple of years a piece for most writers. What's more, the quality doesn't suffer at all. His work is really good. I have not heard this from his mouth personally, but I wager that he genuinely loves writing, and that that is why he can put out so much material.He has done it again in his novella *The Emperor's Soul*. The story takes place on the same world in the “Cosmere” - the universe where all of Sanderson's works (not including his novels completing Robert Jordan's *The Wheel of Time* books, which takes place on a future/past earth) take place – as the novel *Elantris*. In an empire in a different location of that world, a “Forger” named Shai has been arrested in an attempt to steal the Emperor's scepter. Forging is essentially a system of magic whereby one can create various “stamps” that, when applied to an object or an animal, will rewrite the history of what is stamped, in order to make it something else. This can work on people as well, but this is *much* more difficult and prone to error. The only caveat is that the new “history” must be something believable about that which it affects, or it will not take. As a side note, Sanderson has stated that he got this idea from the seals that he saw stamped onto some ancient artifacts when he visited a museum on a trip to Taiwan one time.The penalty for such an attack (such as Shai's attempted theft) on the person or attire of the emperor is execution. But Shai is offered a chance to survive. It is revealed to her by the Imperial advisers (called Grands) that assassins from a rival political faction have murdered the Empress and rendered the Emperor vegetative. If she can rewrite his past to forge him a new soul during the 100 days in which he is officially “in mourning”, so that his state of health is not discovered, then she can go free. If not, she is to be executed.Shai sets to work, but she doesn't believe the Grands for a minute. She knows that they will kill her anyway. Whether this be when she is finished, or beforehand when she is far enough along to have another forger complete her task, she isn't sure. But she is already planning her escape. Then the unexpected happens in that she begins to care about the welfare of the Emperor she is tasked with restoring to life, and about the one honest Grand who assists her in her work. Can Shai finish her task and escape before she is quietly executed?This book is not so much action as it is a work of philosophical and psychological suspense. I say philosophical in a specific way. Sanderson does not engage in the level of commentary that he does in the *Mistborn* novels (not even that of *The Alloy of Law* the similarly short *Mistborn* novella). His commentary applicable to our society is brief. This isn't a preachy book at all. What I mean is that the story of Shai and how she uses her magical “art” to set about restoring the Emperor and escaping is tied up in philosophical and psychological aspects of that specific plot. It really is interesting. It's like some films that have a person mostly in one room undergoing days, weeks, or months of adversity, but the difference is that this story has a happy ending. I hope that's not too much of a spoiler to say that. ;)The characters, other than Shai, the one kinder Grand, and the Emperor, were not exactly well-developed, and these three were not given a ton of development either. Of course, given the brevity of this story, that is not surprising, and it is certainly not the negative it would be for a longer work. They received sufficient attention for the needs of the story.Once again, Sanderson designs a rather ingenious system of magic. While Sanderson does have his faults in that he can be a tad too wordy (just like the late Robert Jordan could be), and he sometimes doesn't give the proper “breathing room” of some positive aspect amidst the darkness of some more depressing stories (see the first of his *Stormlight Archive* novels, though his *Mistborn* books don't fall into this trap), but he is ingenious at developing characters just enough for what the story needs, and at creating unique and interesting systems of magic.I would actually compare Sanderson's impact on modern epic fantasy in terms of how he handles magic to Isaac Asimov's impact on science-fiction in how he handled robots. I'll be the first to say that the man has faults, and to roll my eyes at some of the more extreme Sanderson fanboys that apparently think he is some sort of god of fantasy literature, but he does deserve his due as a prolific, talented, and creative author. *The Emperor's Soul* makes this abundantly clear.Highly Recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Excellent fantasy novella
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 4, 2022*

I read an article where the author suggested five short literary books that could be read in a day or two. One of them was the Emperor's Soul. I am not a reader of fantasy novels at all but I decided to read it and I was so amazed that I loved this book! It's a fun adventure with good character development. I think this would be great book for teens too especially if you are trying to get your kids to read more. Put the phone down and read this book!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    amazing.
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 22, 2022*

The writing of Sanderson is simply amazing. Such creativity! In so few pages not only is there an incredible story offered for our enjoyment, but we are all invited to reflect on key themes such as honesty, integrity, choice and change. Wow.

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