The Blood Mirror

Brent Weeks

Oct 2016 · Sold by Orbit

About this eBook

Gavin Guile is missing, leaving Kip and his allies to face the White King's horde in the fourth novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week's.

When does an empire fall?

The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four-and those are falling before the White King's armies.

Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, formerly the one man who might have averted war, is now lost, broken, and trapped in a prison crafted by his own hands to hold a great magical genius. But Gavin has no magic at all. Worse, in this prison, Gavin may not be alone.

Kip Guile will make a last, desperate attempt to stop the White King's growing horde. Karris White attempts to knit together an empire falling apart, helped only by her murderous and possibly treasonous father-in-law Andross Guile.

Meanwhile, Teia's new talents will find a darker use-and the cost might be too much to bear.

Together, they will fight to prevent a tainted empire from becoming something even worse.

Devour this 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 feel Brent needs a son. This series started at the top of power and came crashing down while Kip is now gaining power. Its going to take some major effort to bring it back to the expansive powerful feeling Gavin gave us in first 2 books. I am not super sold on this as I love the Gavin character more than Kip. I feel this book was too much of a segway to the next book as compared to the other books that are just so solid. Or maybe it was turtle bear slow since Kip dominates. Still 5 star quality read.

This entry feels like Weeks simply couldn't fit everything that he wanted into a single entry to finish the series and as the book suffers for it. This became pages of necessary filler to get characters where Week's need them to be for the final act but because of that its simply page after page of building tension and moving set pieces. I think that makes this the weakest of all of his novels to date but realistically if you are this far into the series you already love it and wont mind too much. The one saving grace is the character development for Kip as he starts to take a few more steps out of childhood and begin to step more fully into the world he has been being groomed for since book 1.

Continuing a series is never easy, characters waver and wander and make choices we dont always agree with. It says something profound about an author who instead of fighting those tendencies lets them play out to a beautiful ending that, although unexpected, is one the readers can support and treasure. I'm sure I will be pouring countless hours into this book (and series!) Again and again.

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.