Lightbringer Series Review | Spoiler Free | Dark Fantasy Thriller by Brent Weeks
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- This is my spoiler-free review of the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks
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The Black Prism (Lightbringer #1) by Brent Weeks
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The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer #2) by Brent Weeks
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The Broken Eye (Lightbringer #3) by Brent Weeks
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The Blood Mirror (Lightbringer #4) by Brent Weeks
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The Burning White (Lightbringer #5) by Brent Weeks
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Great review :)
But I tend to disagree with you on the "fat shaming" parts. I am fat myself, let's face it, no point trying to hide it. And I REALLY liked the parts in this series.
Why? Because they feel real. That's what was going on my mind since I'm young.
Realising it isn't fat shaming I think, it's juste basic thuth. And by saying it or reading about it like here, you can open your mind and begin the work on your self esteem. This book has been a really good starting point for me on that subject and I can't help but thank it for this.
Sometimes you have to say the ugly truth and not always avoiding it to realise it !
(sorry for the broken english, I'm french)
Thanks for offering an alternative perspective on the possibly fat shaming in the book. It made me very uncomfortable, so I wanted to bring it up in the video, but I also acknowledge that I am consider "normal" weight so I'm not approaching the topic from a personal place.
I really like Brent Weeks and really enjoyed this series…I don’t believe this series gets the credit
it deserves and isn’t talked about enough on BookTube…I have read so many reviews bashing
the last book in the series and about how the series ended…But I totally agree with you I thought that the ending was really solid and satisfying…
But there are a lot of reviews that really piss on how this series ended and I just want to let future readers know not to be deterred from reading this series because of those bad reviews for the last book…
Not sure what those reviewers were expecting but this last book and the ending of this series is very solid and more than satisfying…Thank You for the review of this series it doesn’t get the respect that
it should in the BookTube community…Keep up the good works 👍🏻
Everyone should look up secret endings for this series pretty crazy lol
There is nothing worse than a thin person thinking they know how a fat person thinks. I was a porky kid and how Kip feels is how fat kids feel. No bully or friend is harder on you when it comes to fat than you are yourself. All the fat-shaming pretty much in the book comes from the fat character. He is ashamed of himself and most fat people are to at least an extent.
Great review, Rachel! I bought the first book over the summer. I read the first chapter and really enjoyed it. I’m planning on tackling it after my Wheel of Time read through. I was hesitant to pick it up for the negatives you mentioned. I hate fat shaming and I really prefer strong women in the books I read. The good parts of this series, however, seems to outweigh those bad things. So now I’m looking forward to reading it.
Yeah, overall, if you can look past the imperfections, the series is really fun. I look forward to seeing what fantasy books you pick up once you complete the WOT.
i saw a couple people saying the 5th/final book wasn't that great compared to its predecessors and it kind of ruined the series as a whole. what do u think? is the last book a satisfying and fantastic ending? will i like this series since Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson is one of my all time fav books?
Yeah it had some good conclusions (for me) but honestly it's not perfect. I really enjoy the series... despite it's flaws
Does it share the same universe as the Night Angel trilogy? Not a dealbreaker, but it would be cool if it did.
Nope totally unrelated worlds
I’ve read the first one and partially the second one and loved it so far! This just gets me more motivated to keep moving through with the series!!
Oh yes, keep reading so we can talk about the series!
I will be reading this series soon I don't know if I will like it but I will give it a try the series reminds me of the first law series
I read the Blade Itself and I personally thought the two fantasy series were quite different from each other
Great review. After finishing the series, I can’t help but get the feeling that maybe someday Brent Weeks may return to this world. He certainly leaves a few plot threads open for potential sequels in the future.
Thanks! I definitely think there is room for more stories in this world
Great review, Rachel! I love the way you discussed the series critically and honestly, while still bringing out the positives elements. I love dark, twisty fantasy, so it sounds like this one would be up my alley.
Thanks PT. I wanted to do this series review because most of the reviews I've seen online are either gushing 5 star reviews or people who dnf'd the series after book 1 or 2 due to the criticisms that I mentioned. If you love dark twisty fantasy, then you should definitely give these ones a try.
3 secret endings go check those out
At last, I did the best decision to finish this series before 2020 ends. My star-rating is a follows: The Black Prism - 4 stars, The Blinding Knife - 4 stars, The Broken Eye - 5 stars, The Blood Mirror - 4 stars and The Burning White - 4 stars.
Yes it is such a good feeling to close out a series before the end of a year. I think Blood Mirror was my favourite.
@@TheShadesofOrange That is kind of unexpected of you. Can you tell me why? First, mine is Broken Eye. Let me share this review I made, survivordean.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/review-lightbringer/
I'm reading the second book right now I'm really am enjoying it so far I will be continuing with the series 😀🙂🤗
Glad you're enjoying it so far!
What a great review. I will definitely watch your Burning white review as soon as I'm done.
You're probably getting close to the end now! I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts. I need to go back and watch some of your own Lightbringer content.
@@TheShadesofOrange yes I hope to finish this weekend.
I have the first book -- ¨Black Prism¨. I´ll give it a try. I did read the book ¨The Way of Shadows¨ and it was ok.
I hope you enjoy the series
I absolutely love books with morally grey characters and/or antiheroes, like Mika Waltari's The Egyptian and Thackerey's Barry Lyndon. You got me interested in this series! Thanks for another great review.
If you like morally gray characters, then you'll likely really enjoy this series. I'm not familiar with the books that you mentioned so I will have to look them up!
Great review!👍👍👍📚🤖🚀
Thanks for the video, just finished the first one and looking forward to starting the next one. It has potential to be my favourite magic system and how well the fights are done.
It's definitely one of the best magic systems. And I agree, the fighting is very well done. I hope you enjoy the rest of the series. It gets pretty crazy!
Thank you for this review. I absolutely love your thoughts on the books you review.
Oh thank you. Have you read the series?
Amazing series review. You really helped me understand it's not for me even if it looks very well plotted and executed. But I'm not into the morally gray thing and all the other criticism you mentioned. I'm subscribing to your channel, thank you again!
Thank you so much! I'd like to do more series reviews in the future.
Ah this is amazing! just started the 1st book. thank you so much for this video, helps a lot
So glad to hear that this was helpful for you! And I'd love to hear how things go as you get further into the series.
Hi Rachel! I just finished the Lightbringer series yesterday and I’m still gathering my thoughts on it as a whole, I absolutely had such a blast reading it though. I found your channel just now via GoodReads, great review on the series! Do you have any recommendations on Fantasy series similar to Lightbringer? I’m quite new to Fantasy and mostly read Horror and a few thrillers.
Glad you enjoyed it! And welcome to my channel. If you liked the magic, Mistborn & Sufficiently Advanced Magic are two books with "hard magic systems" that you might enjoy. If you liked the poltiical backstabbing, then I'd recommend A Song of Ice & Fire series.
Great review. Thanks so much.
Thanks!
Well done spoiler-free review. Looks you rated each book 4 stars on Goodreads. Did you like the series better than Mistborn?
I'd say I like Mistborn better. (I gave the Final Empire 5 stars). This series was really fun, but the flaws were glaring enough that I wouldn't necessarily call this series an all time favourite.
Thank you SO MUCH for the warning about fat shaming. This was on my list but now I’m gonna pass. Too many great books and not enough time for that nonsense. Love your reviews!
Thank you. I'm glad the review was helpful in letting you decide to skip this one. The fat shaming was such an unnessarry aspect of the story that I could have done without.
Kip was fat do to the shame he felt about his mother and the horrible things she did. He wasn't really ashamed of being fat he was ashamed of not being good enough in his mothers eyes. That led to taking comfort in food.( his own words) and no three characters combined gave him more grief about being fat than he did himself.
So I started reading the Black Prism this morning and then I noticed I was starting chapter 40 and decided that I need to take a breath. I've had a few moments in the reading where I thought something was overly contrived and too convenient but the series is new enough that I'd give it the benefit of the doubt. I wanted to get a second opinion from someone with a mature reader's taste since I keep getting Book Tube review from creators who are very young and seem to gush about everything they read. One, in particular has failed me 8 out of 9 times with recommendations. If lightbringer works out it will jump up to 8 out of 10 but given his history I was skeptical. I had also heard snippets about the magic system in Lightbringer that made me think that it was one of those worlds where the author created a neat magic system and the rest was just decoration for it. Obviously, 40 chapters in I've not been driven away by the lack of interesting detail in the world. I don't yet see the failure in the famale characters or the propensity for physical descriptions but maybe that gets worse in later novels. So far, I am enjoying this and I will keep reading...
Glad I could offer a more "tempered" review. I enjoyed the series, but it's not an all time favourite because I had issues with it. I'm sorry that one booktuber keeps steering you wrong. Some people give 5 stars to everything or simply just have really different reading tastes
OK, now I hav@@TheShadesofOrange
OK, so now I have read the whole book and I'm actually very disappointed. It had the potential to be great, then really good, then good and finally I'm down to 'Meh". If you care to read, I'll explain:
The Good of this book is that many of the character moments and situations were compelling and it had elements that I was hoping would be great. The Magic system started off with a lot of potential and I was initially impressed with it but as things went on I stopped making excuses for it and started to be critical. Much of the dialogue and banter was entertaining and the basic world building and setting vibrance made for a tremendous start.
The Bad: While the characters seemed to have their own personalities there was a lot of the 'one voice' problem rising up. Clearly it doesn't take great intellect to be a drafter but all of the POV characters had the same kind of cleverness and often the same wit and Brents fingers in the sock puppet were too obvious. The battle was long, boring, illogical and poorly thought out. Many elements were poorly thought out. They might have been exciting to imgine but made little sense if you gave them consideration. The magic system, seemingly hard and defined by rules get softer and squishier ast the story went on. Any many many 'twists' wee so obvious to me that it was almost like I had read the story before. The whole Man in the Iron Mask trope was actually the only one that I didn't see coming but it was still early in the book, so I can forgive myself for missing it. Still, that plot 'twist' was so horribly stupid in context that it is irritating.
The Ugly: one of my biggest peeves in books is when people write grand stuff that makes no sense because they want to seem Epic. The Evil 'King' of the country that was ravaged by war and nearly destroyed 16 years ago is trying to raise an army of peasants. He levies from all the crappy little villages and when one says no, he brings his army to destroy his own village as an example. (OK, this idea alone is fine, sounds like what a viking would do to put the fear in his people.) Yet a week later he has an army of 100,000 troops, most of whom are undisciplined peasants? Who are marching cohesively and not starving to death, not digging latrine pits, pissing in the water source, being force marched, not rebelling... This author has no clue about the logistics of an army, at all. He also has them manage to speed ahead during this forced march, not break, not fall apart from desertion, and at the end of a full days march, the artiller is in front? The men in full plate are still fresh enough to charge on foot the last thee miles to a wall and fight? Full plate... not light... middle of summer, full days march... Not stopping for food and water.... speaking of, there is a scene with a group of rabble roasting a boar... Where did common rabble, no the kings elite, get a full sized boar to eat? Clearly if there had been any hunting to have, 100,000 men would have already devoured it and the best would have gone to the king and his elite but scum had an animal roasting in full view of everyone. Total Insanity done for a cheap scene to demonstrate that Kip, who anyone with half a brian can already have seen was going to be a young prism, is a prism. Not a surprise, it was obvious.
Then there is a simpler problem, manpower. The nation was depopulated only 16 years ago, they left hardly any men in those villages and yet there are men to conscript? from where? These people are dirt poor and suppressed by the foreign rulers .. so... how can Kip and the Pig lady even be so damn fat? Drug addled mother doesn't equal overfed son. Kip is fat for character points. That's all. The Fat woman cooking the meat didn't hunt it herself and had no money so ... it was just a scene contrived to make Kip ask for food and get attacked.
Then there is the wicked sponsor from the school. This woman was such a charicature that it was sad. Liv 'should' have told the prism about her right away when she felt as though he was her savior, but she didn't because... ... ? ... she didn't tell her father because ... ... ? ... Too many clever people doing stupid things for plot.
The army of the jerk king had over 1,000 drafters... How? in 16 years people still need to grow up and have babies.. in a counry with no men to spare, they also had enough children to have them become drafters, learn from a mad man and gow old enough to become wights... They all just happened to hide away from the entire world until the plot needed them to arrive. They hung around at the villain HQ and trained up their skills for a decade waiting for their chance to get shot by muskets attacking a city and no one every saw them, or reported it to anyone such that it would get to the prism who has a penchant for hunting wights... UGH
So much good stained with all this crap tears this book down and I don't want to read more. On top of it all, the very rules oriented magic system keeps getting all these exceptions poked in it and it makes me cringe. The wall with the programmed illusions was just such a D&D kind of spell effect that I had to scratch my head and wonder where the Chromaturgy went...
@@llywyllngryffyn8053 I read through your whole comment and really appreciated hearing what didn't work for you. I'm sorry that my own reply is shorter but I do read every comment I get. Our criticisms of the books weren't necessarily the same, which made your perspective more interesting to me. I definitely say don't bother continuing with the series if you disliked the Black Prism so much because I think you'll find the same issues in the later books. Love to hear what are some fantasy series you'd recommend instead. I liked Lightbringer but it's not a favourite of mine.
@@racheltheshadesoforange8700 I am very much having trouble finding anything good enough to recommend. The Wheel of Time is worth reading all the way through if you haven't already but it is definitely a time commitment. I've liked the First Law series even though it too has issues. My best compliment to what Joe Abercrombie wrote is that it has fewer major flaws than any other series I've read in the last few years. If you like Sci-Fi then I strongly recommend the Bobiverse series, starting with We Are Legion We are Bob. I almost forgot to sleep while I was reading those... There is also a new book in the series coming soon.
Could not disagree with you more on the female characters. Who was weak? Across the board the female characters led a huge part of the action, they had agency, name one weak female character please
We can agree to disagree but I found Karris particularly to be a SUPER weak female character. There are multiple places in the book where she basically says that she is nothing without Gavin & Kip. A woman should have an identity outside of being of wife & (step) mother. And I honestly found the other female motivations very weak, like Gavin's room slave
This is a series that I've been a little undecided on. I read his Night Angel series years ago and enjoyed it, but didn't love it. The premise does sound super interesting and the good things you mentioned are definitely appealing. The negatives are rather unfortunate though. Haha maybe once I get my TBR pile a little bit under control, I'll consider reading them!
I haven't read the Night Angel books, but I've heard that most people consider the Lightbringer series to be much stronger. The negatives are unfortunate. It mostly depends how willing or interested you are in ignoring those aspects for the sake a fun story.
@@TheShadesofOrange Ah, that's good to know! I might have a better time with this one then. Maybe I'll try borrowing the first one from the library and see how that goes!
I am debating to finish it it's a long book
I guess it depends how much you are enjoying it
@@TheShadesofOrange I am enjoying it
I don't agree on your point of the fat shaming. He wasn't fat cause he was dumb. But obviously you have zero knowledge of military life. The fact he is joining the royal gaurd makes perfect sense for the shaming. Plus the people who shame him are all those who want to use it against him. (Take from a fat man too)