Chapotraphouse

I liked Elantris at the time, I thought it was a neat little puzzle story. But then they were all the same after that, overconstructed magic systems used as a fill-in-the-blank kinda plot device where the main character just needs to read the instruction manual aaaaall the way to the end where the cheatcode is written in the credits pages.

Very dull stuff. Magic doesn't solve problems, people solve problems.