Book Review: The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3) by Brent Weeks
The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Series: Lightbringer (Book #3 of 5)
Genre: Fantasy, High fantasy
Pages: 864 pages (US paperback edition)
Published: 26th August 2014 by Orbit
The Broken Eye is an installment filled with an intense focus on secrecy, revelations, politics, and world-building.
The Broken Eye is the third—and the second largest—book in the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks; it’s quite crazy to think that this is the third book already and yet I still found myself constantly surprised by the revelations, plot twists, and developments. I’ve mentioned this before, there aren’t many high-fantasy series with a plotting level that reached what Weeks achieved with this series. On my reread, the benefit of hindsight allowed me to witness the hidden breadcrumbs planted into the previous two books that weren’t possible on my first read. I can’t stress this highly enough, as far as the expansion to the plotline and lore of the series goes, The Broken Eye contained a lot of crucial information surrounding the mythology and secrets that have been mentioned several times in the previous two books. The prophecy of the Lightbringer, Diakoptes, Orholam, the Nine Kings, the Order of the Broken Eye, Paryl drafting, & the Blinding Knife; all of these are wonderful and, honestly, needed additions to the series which I’m sure will end up being super important for the remaining of the series. …