This book is quite a bit more violent than ELANTRIS. I worry about that, sometimes. I hope I don’t put people off who enjoyed my first novel. Several things save me, I think.
First off, though people initially don’t think of ELANTRIS as a gruesome book, it really does include quite a few disturbing elements. The brutality of the people in Elantris, for instance, or the slaughtering done by the Dakhor monks. In chapter one of Elantris, we see a boy with his throat crushed, seeping blood. So, really, there isn’t anything in MISTBORN that stands out THAT much.
The difference is, I guess, that one of the heroes is himself a killer. Also, we have scenes like this one, which are just plain disturbing.
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