• The Blood Mirror

  • By: Brent Weeks
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 20 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (13,372 ratings)

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The Blood Mirror

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

The nail-biting continuation of the Lightbringer series from New York Times best seller Brent Weeks.

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.

©2016 Brent Weeks (P)2016 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

Winner of Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel, 2013

Runner-up of Endeavor Award, 2013

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Filler novel

Marked release date on calendar. Sad that this was a filler novel. No emotional victories small or large, just grinding, plodding, story. This book contains the depth and emotional weight of a single chapter from the other books in the series. Seems like the author wants to drag out the story of such a beautiful story arc. Beyond impressed with the series until now. May try one more but depends on how long until release.

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I waited to long to listen.

I read a review earlier on this book that said it was boring and all filler. I want go find that review and down vote it. There are massive plot advancements and bomb shells in this book. Action is a bit lite but dialogue is always deep and excellent. I freaking love this series. Rock on Mr. Weeks.

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good but not the worst of the 4 books

there's alot of cool insight to drafting and pretty cool plot twists , how ever unlike the other books kips story in this is less ... Dramatic ? the books really just one big set up for the fifth I guess.

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A bit disappointed...

I have been a huge fan of Brent Weeks; however, this book was more of a filler and platform to discuss a medical condition. Half the book is about the characters self doubts and recrimination. The amount the actual story progressed could have been done in a two chapter short story. I will still read the next one when it's released because I want to finish the story but I am truly disappointed. This terrible book in a great series reminds me of George RR Martins "A Feast for Crows" where the amount of progress to the story line could have been summed up in a few pages instead of more than 700.

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Cut short at a climax. No relief

Feeling strung along. Was it not finished, or are they stringing us along to sate the hunger for revenue?

Excellent half of a book...

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Filler Book.

I have mostly enjoyed the lightbringer series up until now and was exciting to pick this up.

And I have to say after finishing this listen I'm left conflicted. It's not a complete filler book, and there's some interesting revelations.

However unfortunately those are few and far between. Everything relevant could easily have been summed up in a couple chapters.

Probably 80% consists of dialog between 2 or more characters, often with conflicting view points. It's literally chapter after chapter after chapter of this, people "squaring off" with talking back and forth.

So much so that I have the say the pacing really suffers, and remains mostly uninteresting, but I was never overly bored either.

Nothing is this book is griping, intense or all that exciting, it sort of just plods along chapter after chapter.

Hard one to recommend. But I will say if you desperately need something to listen to pass the time, and like the series, this will just be "ok"

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Empire strikes back ?

A very long waste of time 90 % fluff .
Author holds too much back for the
" last book " wish it was better 🙁

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The start to get very interesting...

As this series approaches the finale some interesting bits of information are revealed that change the way you will view some of the main characters, none more so than Gavin Guile. No character arc has been more full of surprises than Gavin's and the revelations about his past in this book finally explain why he is known as the Black Prism. Gavin is in a bad spot for sure but he may yet play a key role in shaping the future of this world, but not for the reasons you think. He also isn't the only main character shaping up to be a major player in the outcome of the war as Andross, Kip, and Karris all find themselves jockeying for position in order to influence things to their preference. One thing is for certain, this book sets things up for a conclusion to the series that will be hard to predict.

Although I can see why some people walked away from this series at the beginning, I am glad that I didn't because the story continues to get more interesting and the character development goes in directions that I didn't see coming. That keeps the series fresh and enables it to stand out within a crowded genre where it is hard to be unique these days. Brent Weeks has done a great job at slowly revealing facts about each character's past that makes you rethink your views of the character as well as the likely outcome of the overall story arc. In my review of Brent's Night Angel Trilogy I commented that I liked how he shed new light on prior events from earlier in the series that made you think differently about the characters (and their motives) and he takes that concept to a whole new level in this series. One book remains and I will be eager to pick it up as soon as it is available.

Simon Vance does another excellent job and the combination of Weeks' writing with Vance's narration leads to an awesome listening experience.

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This is a "could have been great" kind of Novel

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The characters fall apart. Gavin becomes a shell and is poorly written. Kip's story only becomes one of failed coitus (BLAH!). Teia is marginally interesting, but her dichotomy is hypocritical and barely at odds with itself. Liv might as well not be in the book (no one cares for Liv). The poor character development dooms this story.

What was most disappointing about Brent Weeks’s story?

Gavin / Dazen is a failed character. After falling in love with this character in the first two books, Brent sends Gavin into a second-rate character and his trials and tribulations are poorly thought out and petty in their delivery. Andross is a consummate arse and

What does Simon Vance bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Simon is one of my favorites. He always does an excellent job.

Do you think The Blood Mirror needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

Yes. Put Gavin to rest, spend him as you will, I don't care now.

Any additional comments?

No. I wish I had never found this series at this point. I loved the first two books, and hoped at the end of the third book that the forth would recover, but sadly it does not.

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Weakest in the series

Would you try another book from Brent Weeks and/or Simon Vance?

I found this book least entertaining in the series so far and let me say I enjoyed the first two books very, very much. I am sorry to say that but this book felt to 60% like a filler.The narrator reminded me here and there of a teacher from school, who tries to impress his students with acrobatic dynamics all present in one less significant sentence. Mr. Vance reads occasionally a bit too fast which makes the understanding sometimes more challenging.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The book focuses, for my taste, too much on story aspects which, at series begin, were more in the background. I was totally unhappy with the author's handling of its main character. Mr. Weeks if you don't get Gavin/Dazen back up in the last book, you will run the series against the wall - like Anthony Ryan did with one of his.

What three words best describe Simon Vance’s voice?

dynamics too artful

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