The Burning White

Pages: 960
Published: 2019
Language: English

Gavin Guile, once the most powerful drafter the world had ever known, has lost his magic and is now on a suicide mission where failure dooms the woman he loves and success may doom his empire. Meanwhile his son Kip fights to step out of his father's shadow and rally the Chromeria's scattered forces as the White King closes in, springing traps years in the making and threatening the Chromeria itself with treason from within and siege from without.

As armies clash and old gods stir, Brent Weeks brings the five-book Lightbringer saga to its close, answering the question the series has circled from the start: who is the Lightbringer? Dense, multi-POV epic fantasy that rewards readers who've followed Kip and Gavin from the beginning.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Adventurous Tense Dark Complex

Chosen One Multiple POVs

Epic Fantasy Fantasy

Brent Weeks

Brent Weeks is an American fantasy writer, born on March 7, 1977 in Whitefish, Montana. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2000 with a degree in English, then worked as a teacher and a bartender before writing full time. His debut, The Way of Shadows, opened the Night Angel trilogy in 2008 and reached the New York Times bestseller list in 2009. He followed it with the five-book Lightbringer series, beginning with The Black Prism in 2010, and returned to the Night Angel world with Night Angel...