The Broken Eye

Brent Weeks

Aug 2014 · Lightbringer Book 3 · Hachette Audio · Narrated by Simon Vance

About this audiobook

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world in the third novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week.

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world. But Gavin Guile has been captured by an old enemy and enslaved on a pirate galley. Worse still, Gavin has lost more than his powers as Prism -- he can't use magic at all.

Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will face a master of shadows as his grandfather moves to choose a new Prism and put himself in power. With Teia and Karris, Kip will have to use all his wits to survive a secret war between noble houses, religious factions, rebels, and an ascendant order of hidden assassins called The Broken Eye.

Read the third book in Brent Weeks's blockbuster epic fantasy series that had Peter V. Brett saying, "Brent Weeks is so good, it's starting to tick me off!".

Ratings and reviews

I'd like to preface this review with, I listened to this book and it's predecessors while working and doing housework and perhaps I missed some things that would have changed my impression of the book. I read a lot of good reviews speckled with some pretty poor ones and decided to give the series a shot. I regret my decision. I don't like the world, especially the magic system created. I feel it falls to the troupe of everyone having limitations except the bad guy and the hero. I feel like there is a lot of filler in the books. The first book wasn't horrible but you can probably read the first and last ten chapters of books two and three and be alright. There are characters who chapters are written about that are killed and don't have a large impact on the story. I had some trouble with the transition of time. It felt to me like there were people who had large spans of time progress while others days or weeks progressed. I had a hard time dealing with the fact that so much is asked of the protagonists and friends at such young ages, 15-17, but they teeter back and forth between being warriors and being unable to deal with a boner.

Some chapters seems as if they are lectures and more of filler than a part of the story. Great audiobook, Simon Vance did great as the narrator.

brent weeks is my all-time favorite author. thank you for writing these books!

About the author

Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. He wrote on bar napkins and lesson plans before landing his dream job years and thousands of pages later. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi, and their daughters. Find out more about the author at www.brentweeks.com or on Twitter @brentweeks.