A good book, that while based in the same world as "Elantris", you truly don't need to have read that book first to appreciate this one. In fact, you have to look REALLY hard to find anything that ties the two books together at all.

A lot of things in this book remind me of Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series. Particularly "Words of Radiance". And honestly, even those books are loosely related to this one.