Here we are with The Emperor's Soul! If you're here for all the drama and disagreement as we state contentious opinions on these books, you may want to give this one a pass - watch us all rapidly agree "this book is great".

Next week - Day 58-Epilogue

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We have a sampler-platter of an episode this week, because it's time to end a book and start a book. We've talked about Elantris for 12 weeks now, but did we... like it? Also, because Brandon still hasn't written that Elantris sequel, what's next?

Next week - Prologue-Day 42

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It's time to start Part 3 of Elantris! It's time to end part 3 of Elantris! This is the part where, uh, everything happens. Strap in, folks, this is a doozy.

Next week - Elantris wrap-up - Emperor's Soul intro

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As we approach the end of a book, we start to see predictions come true, and that's always exciting. This episode's notable prediction: "please have fewer characters in this book". Uh oh.

Next week - Chapter 55-Epilogue

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Complex characters are fun, right? It's interesting to discuss the intricacies of a character's beliefs and actions, and determine what we think of them in the end. I think we can all agree, though - don't serial-kill. That's bad.

Next week - Chapters 46-54

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So, uh. Is this the same book that we've been reading? There's some sort of murder-cult going on? Let's try to deal with this, if we can.

Next week - Chapters 36-45

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Look, it's quite simple: Spirit, who is really Raoden (whose name means spirit) is in New Elantris (in Elantris) drawing the Aon Aon. Nothing to it.

Next week - Chapters 28-35

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Y'know what, you don't get a descriptive newspost for today. I'm too distracted by an incredibly tense Cubs game. See you next week?

Next week - Chapters 23-27

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Finally, we don't have 24 new characters to deal with. That means it's time to get way off the rails and talk about poorly-timed promotional campaigns - I mean it's time to buckle down and make some predictions on where this book is headed.

Next week - Chapters 19-22

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This week: some surprisingly early payoffs for plot predictions we had, as well as a section that we all actually agree we Don't Like.

Next week - Chapters 16-18

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