Annotation Elantris 58-3

Annotation Elantris 58-3 Chapter Fifty-Eight Part Three KIIN’S BACKGROUND So, call me melodramatic, but I think the Kiin surprise is one of my favorite in the novel. I’ve been foreshadowing this one from almost the beginning. And while it isn’t a major part of the plot, it does suddenly explain a lot about Kiin’s character.…

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Annotation Elantris 58-2

Annotation Elantris 58-2 Chapter Fifty-Eight Part Two I don’t know if you remember or not, but there was some small confusion on Raoden’s part earlier about who Sarene was getting to bring supply shipments into Elantris. They always came and left at night, and didn’t want anybody there to greet them. I realize we haven’t…

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Annotation Elantris 58-1

Annotation Elantris 58-1 Chapter Fifty-Eight–part one At least you can’t say that I didn’t warn you about the Avalanche. Okay, so I’m a prude. I’ll admit that. I like my characters to be married before they have sex. Besides, Sarene is right–she deserves a wedding. She’s waited since chapter two to have her big, princess’s…

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Annotation Elantris Chapter 57

Annotation Elantris Chapter 57 Chapter Fifty-Seven As I’ve mentioned before, I didn’t want Hrathen’s affection for Sarene to ever be overt in the book. He’s not a man of passions, and I think he would be very good at keeping his interest unacknowledged, even in his own thoughts. He has ‘learned to ignore’ the passions…

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Annotation Elantris Chapter 56

Annotation Elantris Chapter 56 Chapter Fifty-Six This chapter begins with an interesting scene. There’s already a bit of tension between Sarene and Raoden. Nothing big, of course–but I think it’s realistic. People don’t always agree. Loving someone doesn’t change the fact that you sometimes think what they’re doing is flat-out dumb. It does, however, tend…

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Annotation Elantris Part Two Wrap-Up

Annotation Elantris Part Two Wrap-Up Things certainly are moving along now. I told you the book would speed up as it approached the ending. There were some very good moments in this part. I like how removing the Mad Prince from the book streamlined the pacing, and I think it pushes quite well to the…

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Annotation Elantris Chapter 54

Annotation Elantris Chapter 54 Chapter Fifty-Four Poor Hrathen. He’s been getting jerked around a lot lately–it’s hard for him to react to events before new ones draw his attention. In addition, most of the Mad Prince scenes happened in his chapters. That meant that when I did the revision, he lost the largest number of…

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Annotation Elantris 53-3

Annotation Elantris 53-3 Chapter Fifty-Three Part Three There has been some confusion about Raoden’s line “After I left” to Sarene right before they go back into the kitchen. Right here, he’s getting ready to tell her that he’s really Raoden. He is implying that, after he left Kae (and was thrown into Elantris) he didn’t…

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Annotation Elantris 53-2

Annotation Elantris 53-2 Chapter Fifty-Three Part Two Yes, Ahan is a traitor. When building this book, I knew that I wanted one of the characters to betray the rest. I also knew that I didn’t want it to be the most obvious one in the group. This left me with a problem. I had to…

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