• The Blinding Knife

  • By: Brent Weeks
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (11,598 ratings)

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The Blinding Knife

By: Brent Weeks
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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Publisher's summary

Gavin's powers are fading and his end draws near as war rages across the satrapies in the second novel of the New York Times best-selling Lightbringer series by Brent Week.

Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left - now he has less than one. With 50,000 refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiance who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable.

The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole 16 years ago. If you loved the action and adventure of the Night Angel trilogy, you will devour this incredible epic fantasy series by Brent Weeks.

©2012 Brent Weeks (P)2012 Hachette Audio

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2013, Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Winner

2013, PrizeName, Winner

"The Blinding Knife is a wonderful work of high fantasy with engaging characters facing the perfect antagonists, set in a creatively wrought and increasingly chaotic world brimful of imaginative magic and interesting politics. Weeks holds fast to the traditions of his genre while adding a compelling new flavor."—The Ranting Dragon

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Keeps getting better!

This book is even better than the first of the series. More action. More character development. More politics. Just more.

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Great Story Can't Wait to Read the Next One

Wow, such a captivating story, that's well written and as usual, brilliantly read. Very creative and original.

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Complete other world

Kip finally gets through the grinding of not knowing his strengths. The characters keep getting deeper the plots thicken the world expands and the magic shines in many facets.

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Excellent sequel

I was in a constant tense will hearing the book.
One night I stayed up until 5 am because I couldn't stop listening.

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A hell of a page turner

I looked for every excuse to listen to this book. It was absolutely amazing. Brent Weeks is one of the best out there. If you love fantasy this is a must read.

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Fantastic

It can be hard to please me since Brandon Sanderson sunk his claws into me, but Brent Weeks has gone above and beyond. I got my brother into this series after I read the first book, and knowing there are so many more has me elated. If you liked The Black Prism, continue on. It gets even better.

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Great series!!

Love this author, love this series. Don’t want it to end! So glad I stumbled on it!

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Loved it

The narrator of this book is so much better than the last book. The story is riveting, I had a hard time putting it down.

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Narrator does justice to this great story.

Read the first time in hard copy. The second time through via audio book was just as hard to put down. Simon Vance's narration was excellent, even managing to make me laugh out loud when other narrators so often lose the humour in the original text.

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AMAZING!!!

This book is simply amazing! I would recommend this to anyone. Brent Weeks is a genius.

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