Book Review: The Burning White (Lightbringer, #5) by Brent Weeks
Review copy provided by the publisher—Orbit—in exchange for an honest review.
The Burning White by Brent Weeks
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Series: Lightbringer (Book #5 of 5)
Genre: Fantasy, High fantasy
Pages: 992 pages (Hardback edition)
Published: 24th October 2019 by Orbit (UK) and 22nd October 2019 by Orbit (US)
Epic, engaging, well-written, and surprisingly full of theology.
Here we are, nine years since The Black Prism was first published, The Burning White—the fifth and final installment in the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks—is finally out and with it, the Lightbringer pentalogy is officially over. This is one of my—along with many fantasy readers—most anticipated books of the year, to make sure that I’ll be able to appreciate it fully, I even binged reread the series from the beginning—something I rarely do—in preparation. Now that I’ve read it, I have to say that I’m both satisfied and also disappointed with it. Don’t get me wrong, as far as enjoyment goes I’m still giving this book a 4 stars rating; I was engrossed, wasn’t bored, and I finished this 392,000 words tome within five days. However, although I had a wonderful time with this book and series, I can’t deny that I had issues with the way Weeks resolved the series; allow me to dive into that later, but first, I want to elaborate on the parts that I loved as spoiler-free as possible.
“Of all the things that die, hope is the most easily resurrected.”