The Burning White is a huge book, and the major characters didn’t reunite with each other until the story reached the second half. Weeks spent thousands of pages building her character since The Blinding Knife and although each main character in the book received their spotlight equally, I personally found Teia’s story to be the most thoroughly engaging for almost the entirety of the series. I would, however, mention that Teia’s story conclusion was probably the most satisfying out of all the characters in the series. I could ramble on for hundreds of words about each character’s development, but I don’t think I need to do that. “What if everyone in the world said, ‘Someone’s gonna do evil-but it won’t be me’?”Ĭharacter developments were one of the other aspects that I enjoyed so much from this series it’s satisfying to read how far the major characters have come since their first appearance. In this tome, Weeks did successfully gave closure to some of the major character's story arc and also leave room for more stories should he ever decide to go back to writing in this world. The Burning White is by far the largest book in the series it’s as big as The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson and Weeks has a huge number of storylines to close in this one book. That still stands true here most of the time. Seriously, even though some of the resolutions in this book didn’t sit well with me, the number of plot twists he planned and unveiled throughout the series was nothing short of outstanding I have to applaud him for that. I’ve said this throughout my reviews of the series several times, and I have to say it once again that I think Weeks is one of the smartest writers in the genre when it comes to plot twists and revelations.

“Of all the things that die, hope is the most easily resurrected.” However, although I had a wonderful time with this book and series, I can’t deny that I had issues with the way Weeks resolved the series allow me to dive into that later, but first, I want to elaborate on the parts that I loved as spoiler-free as possible. Don’t get me wrong, as far as enjoyment goes I’m still giving this book a 4 stars rating I was engrossed, wasn’t bored, and I finished this 392,000 words tome within five days. Now that I’ve read it, I have to say that I’m both satisfied and also disappointed with it. This is one of my-along with many fantasy readers-most anticipated books of the year, to make sure that I’ll be able to appreciate it fully, I even binged reread the series from the beginning-something I rarely do-in preparation. Here we are, nine years since The Black Prism was first published, The Burning White-the fifth and final installment in the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks-is finally out and with it, the Lightbringer pentalogy is officially over. Review copy provided by the publisher-Orbit-in exchange for an honest review.Įpic, engaging, well-written, and surprisingly full of theology.

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