The Broken Eye: Book 3 of Lightbringer

It seems everyone is switching sides or really playing a different angle... not sure how the world can have so many patient powerful beings.... but that is what this book is, and it just frustrating to read.

I re-read the first 2 before reading this.... and I couldn't put any of them down! Brent Weeks has tied them together seamlessly. And the surprises! I love love love this series and can't wait for the next and final book!

Give me a minute.. Still reeling from the last few chapters of this incredible book, attempting with no luck to digest what I just read. If I were half the author that Brent Weeks is, I wouldn't adequately be able to describe the masterpiece he's created. A series like no other, it brings me back to the feelings I had as a teenager devouring whichever Harry Potter book had just been released at the time. I dare say the Lightbringer series has me hooked like even Harry Potter couldn't. The fourth book can't come soon enough.

Can't wait for Blood Mirror! Brent Weeks is awesome and I can't read enough of the Guiles' adventures. Twists in plot, and pages that fly with action, mystery, and realistic unreality! Long live the lightbringer

Brent Weeks -excellent author.
both of his series are a must read.
good story and characters, not sure who to trust.
Gavin's (Davin) struggle gets a little long / slow to read about. other than that -great read.

Brent Weeks is right there with Rothfuss, Martin, Jordan, Sanderson, & Goodkind at their best. If your like their books you'll love this series as well. I can't say this is the best book in the series but it's still darn good.

Yes and Yes....no actually an awesome book! Love the characters, the suspense,the twists, the turns......love book and its characters. Love the outcasts turn hero theme....and the winning of respect and friends. A must read series!!

Using the spectrum as a source of magic was ingenious, definitely one of my favorite types of magic as far as fantasy fiction goes.
lacking some of Sanderson's emphasis for detail but doesn't seem to hinder the flow of the books whatsoever
Definitely in my top 20 favorite fantasy fiction series

The usual Brent Weeks awesomeness. Humor, adventure, great characters, fascinating magic. I couldn't wait to get back to reading the book in the evenings and I thought about the story during the day. That's a five-star for me.

Love the characters, they are real. Weeks goes in unexpected directions with his storyline. Each book in the Lightbringer series builds on previous one and the story just keeps getting better and better. Weeks has joined the list of my favorite authors: Tolkien, Rothfuss, Sanderson.

I've re-read this series three times now, especially in preparation of the fourth book coming out in just over a month. Brent Weeks has my attention with every book he writes. It's grown up version of all the fantasy books you read as a kid.

Good book. Great characters but this book really slows down compared to the two previous ones. It leaves almost all the questions from the previous books unanswered and leaves so many open ones that it gets extremely frustrating. I understand not wanting to leave people with any idea of what will happen in the 4th but this is excessive. There's very little action until right at the end and even that feels frantic and bolted on. The action sections of the first two books were much more evocatively written.

To be clear, I'm a huge fan of Brent Weeks and his books. However in this one he doesn't quite meet his usual high standards. Ideally middle books in a series should have their major story arch conclude within the book while teasing bigger dangers yet to come in future books. This one unfortunately muddles through a bunch of stories and finishes almost none. For example:

SPOILERS!
how is the blinding knife used to create prisms, what is andross' true goal, how was zymun instantly accepted as prism-elect when he comes out of nowhere and doesn't have prismatic eyes, what does being the lightbringer actually mean, why could kip touch the ocean and be everywhere at once early when no one else can do that, what do black and white luxin actually DO and why do they matter, what is the burning peryl thing that doesn't actually burn people, etc.

Still I enjoyed reading it and I'll eagerly look forward to the blood mirror that hopefully ties everything up.

Great reading for any fantasy lovers and general book worms alike. Weeks creates a beautiful world and well developed characters, each with their own plot lines that all have their ways of integrating into the main arc.

Some very large and dark/mysterious mythology/legend brought in this chapter, hopefully more fleshed out in the next instalment!

I have enjoyed this series, good strong characters, innovative story line and unpredictable. I was sometimes bored in the first half of the book with to much, forgive me, blah blah blah. I look forward to the next book in the series.

Brent Weeks is a wonderful author who puts so much detail and heart into his stories. I love the character development in this one especially and the crazy surprises you don't see coming! Never a dull moment!

The worse thing about this third book is that now I have to wait for the fourth one!
So far the three books have been interesting and relatively easy to follow despite the large number of characters and locations where things happen, and it still not really clear about who's bad and who's good: Things are not really black and white.

In general, I very much enjoy this author's books. But this one is about 500 pages too long for the amount of story told. The plot moves painfully slowly, and the characters are often just boring. I'm sure I will try the next one, but hopefully the plot moves quite a bit more.

Brent Weeks has done it again with the latest and arguably best installment of The Lightbringer. The intrigue builds relentlessly to a furiously action packed finale that is thoroughly entertaining. Hurry up and take my money for the next preorder already.

This was the year for disappointing sequels. Brandon Sanderson, Deborah Harkness, Patrick Ruthfuss and now Brent Weeks wrote profoundly disappointing follow up novels. It usually takes me 3-4 days to read a book but this one took weeks for finish. I kept putting it down from sheer boredom. The problems as I see it are:
1. Character growth is limited. Sometimes I just wanted to shout at Kip to get over it and to Gavin and his adventure as a galley slave my response was get on with it.
2. Too much insignificant detail. The book should have been 200 pages shorter.
3. Awkward pacing. One moment I am engrossed with Gavin's escape and then the next I am bored to tears with petty female captors.
4. The re-cap of the last book was captured through the character's memories but it did not flow well at all. I think Mark Lawrence the author of Prince of Thorns handled the pre book summary brilliantly.

The reason I still gave this book 3 stars is that Weeks is still a far better writer than most in this genre. I am probably more critical of this author in general because I hold him to a much higher standard. However this is the last book from this author that I will purchase outright. Instead I will wait my turn at the public library for the next installment. If it is worth a second read I'll buy it at that time.

Huge fan of his work, but honestly the quality of work is slipping in this book. There are some paragraphs that are nearly incoherent. Additionally, the plot seems to drag at some points. Still a good book just not as good as his others.

This thrilling third book in the Lightbringer Series is worth the time. Following the adventures of the beloved characters from the first two books is as enjoyable as ever. While at times it feels like a bridge instead of its own story, it is still the good fun and despairing tragedy expected from Brent Weeks.

I finished the book last night (early this morning!). I have to agree with many of the other reviewers. While I love the characters with their rich interplay and back stories, this book was a bit of a slog. I kept screaming in my head begging the author for the action to start. When it finally did at the end of the book, it only ended in yet another set of cliffhangers! It would have helped to have known up front that this wasn't to be the last book in the series.

Another thing that spoiled the book for me is something that many readers probably wouldn't even see. Ohrolam, God's name in these books, is Hebrew for Light of the World. It was clever and subtle, and felt like a little secret that the author and I had together. But when he started using Hebrew names and letters in such obvious ways, it kind of cheapened it for me.

In this book, more so than the previous two, some of the constructs are too obviously Biblical in their origins. (Did we really need a Satan character?) At points it even got almost a bit preachy. I did not care for this. I, too, am a deeply religious person (I'm clergy) but I read fantasy for fantasy. Like Tolkien I don't really care much for allegory.

I wish that I could give this book a 3.5. I really vacillated between giving it a 3 or a 4. I really do love the richness of the characters and of the plot, but like I said, it just moved way too slowly. I will read the next one. I have to find out what happens! Hopefully it will move faster and nicely tie up all of the loose ends. Hopefully it will lose some of its too obvious reliance on Biblical tropes too!

I read the Lightbringer series because it was billed as a trilogy (and still is listed as such). About halfway through the third book (The Broken Eye) I began to realize the story was not going to be wrapped up in the remaining pages. Sure enough, another case of the author deciding "3 just isn't enough, I have to make it 4 books..." This book is good, but there are a lot of places where the characters spend pages just contemplating their lives, their motivations, their place in the world, etc. rather than action or advancing the plot. I think this story could have been completed in three books, but now, exactly what I DID NOT want to happen, has happened, and I'm going to have to WAIT for the fourth book, which is apparently expected in 2016 (it's June 2015 as I write this). I feel cheated and scammed, to tell the truth. It is a great story, and the writing is very enjoyable (other than the navel contemplations, at least) but I try not to start any series of books unless they're already completed since George R.R. Martin and the Game of Thrones.

This book is a great continuation of the series. It takes twists and turns one would not expect. Brent Weeks adds new elements and characters to the story line that enrich it greatly. I read this book for 4 days non-stop, once finished i wanted the last in the series. You will not regret this book if you are a Brent Weeks fan or just an avid reader of sci-fi/magic type books