The Blood Mirror (Lightbringer, #4)

by Brent Weeks

"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."

• ISBN10: 031625133X
• ISBN13: 9780316251334
• Publish Date: 25 October 2016
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Orbit
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 704
• Language: English

Reviews

[tweetybugshouse]

This is the fourth book in this epic fantasy series, each book is a monster-sized book in which we learn more about the magic system of forming light into solid shapes to build things or burnings gels but we also learn more about soul casting versus will casting. Brent weeks takes the concepts of his magic system and gives out well thought out rules for each of the colors in the spectrum and then with each book he expands our knowledge of what can be done with each of those colors.

Not only do we get an epic detailed magic system we have characters and each of those characters turns out may not be who they think they are, the plot twists are detailed you think you got it all figured out when a bomb drops and your like no way how did I not see that it cause you were told for three books that this character is this person.

Then that brings us to poor kip who just wants to be loved and he really doesn’t think he can be loved. He gets forced into marriage while he still heartbroken over another and then things just don’t work out so well in the consummation of the marriage. Just so know this ongoing struggle throughout the book but it does end up happy so keep plugging on our author gives him satisfaction but you have to wait till the end. That leaves with Karris and her lost love Gavin/Dazen who spends the majority of this book in his own private hell with his father. Trust me by the end of the book when you read poor Karris being on the balcony as a ship pulls out of the harbor unbeknownst to her holding her husband you want to throw the book saying no no no that not how the story should go.

Don’t worry their more story to be told, 650 pages promised in September 2019. I can hardly wait to see what more we discover about this world and just how things will play out for Kip and all the rest of the Mighty.

[ross91]

Not as cool as the second and third installment, but still very enjoyable.
In this one Gavin and Teia's POV where my favorite, while Kip's... well, I love him, he has become such a great man and the Mighty are funny as hell.. but too much sex problems I guess. It's a long book, I wanna read something else about my fav character.
Now we wait for the LAST one (so excited!)