A steal at twice the price! Patrick Heffernan of Mysterious Galaxy infamy made this striking board and vinyl case that perfectly holds all five Lightbringer hardcover books. Not much else to say about this one, except well done, Patrick!
He gave this one-of-a-kind case to Brent during his book tour stop in San Diego last year. Any way, hold fast and stay the course, friends. Just gonna get right to it today… Check out this 3-D printed version of the Blinding Knife :. This was created by fan Dylan Jacob , using a rendering that was designed by Ryan Ernst. Well done, guys—it looks great!
Dylan has more cool 3-D printed models in his Twitter feed , and Ryan has some super snazzy renderings on his website. Take care of yourselves, and please do stay home. Nice work, Chip! Because I can. It was an absolute joy to see each submission we received including all the ones not featured here.
Thank you to everyone who participated. You each did a magnificent job! There were nearly four dozen entries, each brilliant and beautiful in their own way. A warm, heartfelt thank you to everyone who submitted. And FYI, this is the last week the Brent Weeks webstore will be open, so get those shirts and books while you can!
Fans have sent us a couple of awesome pics of eyes recently. First and most spectacularly we have pigment dispersion syndrome —also known as going red wight! We also have a slightly more optimistic bit of news about mammalian vision to share with you: turns out we have three photoreceptors in our eyes, not two rods and cones! Granted, the research surrounding this particular revelation started in , and the Nature article is from , but still.
From the article :. Instead, her awareness of light owed itself to a class of light-sensitive cells discovered in Studies of these intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells ipRGCs have since revealed many surprises.
However, recent work suggests that ipRGCs have been underestimated. The content is not overly sophisticated in its wordings. At times, there are longer monologues that delve deep into characterization and theme-oriented elements. The most complicated of which to follow are typically the conversations that occur with the divine entities.
Although these interactions are complicated to follow, Weeks does a solid job of conveying the general point of these conversations even if the reader is unable to comprehend every little detail. The story is more structured along the lines of a continuous stream of character consciousness. This makes the story much easier to follow because every action and every choice involves a line of reasoning and logic.
This way, the happenings of the story seem calculated and precise rather than random and haphazard. If you enjoy getting the most experiences out of your fantasy series, this series may be the one for you. I can say with certainty there is no shortage of adventures with the Lightbringer series. Each chapter is not too long, breaking up the story into perfect little tidbits. These shorter chapters engage the reader far better than if Weeks had condensed the content into longer chapters.
For one, the story structure prevents the reader from growing bored with the character arc of any one protagonist. With each chapter the reader is thrust into the mind of one individual character. These abridged chapters provide the reader with a snippet of a character along their treacherous expedition. The chapters tend to alternate between the main characters in the Lightbringer series. Consequently, the combination of these shorter chapters and character perspective shifts provide a refreshing change of pace every few pages.
It would be much more challenging to properly engage with the characters had the chapters been longer. Since the chapters are so terse, there is typically one specific plot point Weeks tries to accomplish within each singular chapter. With long-winded chapters, it is much easier to lose track of the purpose of the passage. The author may be trying to push multiple points on to the reader rather than one distinct objective when additional pages are involved.
Weeks ensures with this organizational system that potential confusion in the plot is minimized. He is able to convey the messages he wants to communicate to the reader simply by further categorizing and partitioning his content. Since the point of each chapter is purposefully planned out, Weeks makes sure to optimize the resolution of each section for maximal suspense.
There were several moments in my own reading where I had arranged to take a reading break, but I simply could not put the book down because of the dramatic conclusion of the chapter. Characterization was the primary reason I was able to stick with this series until the end. There were not too many characters I disliked in this series. I enjoyed the character arcs of the protagonists and even certain antagonists.
Even minor characters like Cruxer earned my respect as the series went on. The multiple first person perspectives the reader is exposed to did wonders to enhance the characterization of this series.
Being able to witness the continual stream of consciousness from Gavin Guile, Kip, Teia, Karris and even Andross was an absolute treat. Although there are stints where particular characters seem to plateau in their development, everything culminates in the end.
Some change for the better, some change for the worse. It is this curiosity of wondering who will end up where that drove my passion for the story. A few hundred pages in to this series, I slowly realized that I actually cared about what happened to the characters. I developed an emotional attachment to Gavin Guile and Kip could not be shaken. Whenever these characters were riding the brink of destruction, the suspense of whether they would crack under the pressure was excruciating.
But in a good way. I wanted happy endings for everyone, Gavin Guile and Kip in particular. In the world of Chromeria, however, happy endings are hard to come by. This theme is predominantly seen in the story arc of Kip. When Kip is first introduced, he is a self-deprecating teenager that is afraid to stand up to the neighborhood bully.
As the series progresses, Kip begins to shed these immature layers in the favor of becoming the leader everyone needs him to be. There are many harsh trials that placate him along the way. These internal and external conflicts force Kip to abandon his weaker self, demonstrating that conflict is a crucial part of growing up. Religion frequents the Lightbringer series. He is able to handle the shifting perspectives well, and they are all compelling, especially with how they all intertwine with one another.
Gavin Guile is currently dying. He believed he had five years left to go, and knows now he has less than one. With one bastard son, fifty thousand refugees, and a former fiancee who might have just learned about his darkest secret, Gavin finds trouble on all sides.
The magic in the world is running wild, threatening to destroy all of the Seven Satrapies. To make things worse, the old gods are starting to be reborn, and the color wight army is impossible to stop. The sole salvation might just be the brother whose life and freedom Gavin robbed sixteen years back. This has everything you could want from an epic fantasy novel: strong cast of characters, original world building and some solid pacing.
The book was a great sequel as it expanded on the world that was opened up in the first book of the series. The old Gods are waking up, the Chromeria is racing to find its lost Prism, the only guy who could stop this catastrophe, named Gavin Guile. He does not have the ability to draft, which defined him. Currently invading the Blood Forest. Kip and Zymun his psychopathic half-brother are going to compete to win the ultimate prize: who is going to be the next Prism.
Weeks has meticulously created a world and expanded it. He is showing there is no limits to the magic system in this world either. These are fantastic characters, a complex world, and a layered and deep mythology, making this a well realized world that feels like you could actually go there for real. Gavin has been stripped of his political and magical power, the people he used to rule have been told he is dead, and he is held captive in one of his own magical dungeons.
Ex-Emperor Gavin Guile does not have any prospects of escaping. The world faces something far greater than the Seven Satrapies has seen before, and only Gavin will be able to save it. Brent Weeks filled this one with tons of twists and turns so that it made it easy for many readers to read this one pretty quickly. This is quite simply a great epic fantasy series that few will be able to match. This book is able to keep the pressure up, and is still developing the magic system in many different ways.
These are thrilling books with brilliant battles in them.
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