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| Title | : | The Blood Mirror (Lightbringer #4) |
| Author | : | Brent Weeks |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 704 pages |
| Published | : | October 25th 2016 by Orbit (first published November 16th 2015) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. Fiction |
Brent Weeks
Hardcover | Pages: 704 pages Rating: 4.35 | 31283 Users | 1672 Reviews
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Stripped of both magical and political power, the people he once ruled told he's dead, and now imprisoned in his own magical dungeon, former Emperor Gavin Guile has no prospect of escape. But the world faces a calamity greater than the Seven Satrapies has ever seen... and only he can save it.As the armies of the White King defeat the Chromeria and old gods are born anew, the fate of worlds will come down to one question: Who is the Lightbringer?
Lightbringer
The Black Prism
The Blinding Knife
The Broken Eye
The Blood Mirror
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| Original Title: | The Blood Mirror |
| ISBN: | 031625133X (ISBN13: 9780316251334) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Lightbringer #4 |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2016) |
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Ratings: 4.35 From 31283 Users | 1672 ReviewsWrite-Up About Books The Blood Mirror (Lightbringer #4)
So Much Love.Honestly, ever since I started reading Brent Weeks, I've been trying to capture the feel of his glorious writing in all the wrong places. I keep picking up Epic Fantasies here and there and everywhere just trying to satisfy my fix. And yet?Well let me be perfectly honest here. Less than a handful have matched half of the sheer awesomeness in the Lightbringer series. Many many more are lucky to fill this one's cup even to a third, or maybe a fourth of the way up.Lightbringer is justA beautiful disappointment.The Blood Mirror does a lot right and continues to build up the excellent world of the Lightbringer series, with a dose of action as well. But it only really functions to set up the next, and final book. Lots of lore, hints, and subplots are dropped and created but not much actually happens. Think Winter's Heart from The Wheel of Time series. It's a perfectly competent book, but a bit of a letdown, especially compared to the absurd heights that the third book achieved.
On my re-read I can simply confirm that this is a transition book and I cannot wait to see where this story leads!Sure, there are quite significant revelations (Gavin just is so cool!) and women kick ass in this book. Yet, it covers about one year and it is not too detailed (compared to the books before). I am just so ready for The Burning White - I just cannot wait! Expectations are high and I am hoping disappointment will not be a word I use to describe the last installment!I had a blast going
So this series has apparently gone from 4 books (was it supposed to be 3 at the start? idk.) to 5. I have some mixed feelings about that. On one hand I'm really enjoying this series so far. It's fun and fast paced with lots of cool, interesting characters, well-developed plots, intriguing mysteries and some of the most unique world-building I've seen in fantasy. On the other hand I'm really not a big fan of fantasy author's honey-dicking their readers by announcing a series' will be x books in
3.5 StarsThe first 2/3 of this book were pretty slow with some interesting moments but towards the end important things started to develop, some long-standing mysteries were revealed and the pace picked up noticeably. Even so however this book definitely felt like it was setting up the next book, especially as there was no real tying together of the main plots as occurred in the previous books. This book suffered from that lack of an exciting ending that advanced the plot and payed off different
The 4th book in the Lightbringer series doesn't do all that much to progress the series but it continues to envelope the reader in a shroud of luxin as the epic story builds towards its crescendo. There are so many interesting concepts introduced / expanded upon in the Blood Mirror which really bring the Seven Satrapies to life. Without spoiling anything, the assassin angle gets plenty of page time as what it means to be a 'Sharp' is stealthily unraveled while aspects of a menacing new threat
Finally finished! This could have been good if I can only care about the characters more. Honestly, I did start liking the main characters in The Blinding Knife but the fairly poor showing of The Broken Eye did nothing to solidify my then growing investment. Gavin Guile was probably the only one which I still have a decent interest in but his arc dragged and had a lot of what I personally find to be plot devices to shock the reader and provide avenues to lengthen the narrative. One of the
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