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The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer, #2)

Brent Weeks

Start date: July 30, 2014

Finish date: August 25, 2014

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Jul 06, 2014 Jamie B rated it it was amazing

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Another superb installment in this series, a series which is racing up along my list of favourites. The pacing of Weeks writing was perfect in this book. As such at no stage did I feel underwhelmed with any of the characters story lines and I was more than happy to continue with each of them when I found out which POV I would be reading from at the start of each chapter.The thing I found most fascinating about this book was Weeks's ability to finish most (~70% I would guess) of the chapters on s ...more

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Aug 05, 2014 Jan-Eric rated it really liked it

This book was roughly at the same level as book 1. I really did like it. The strengths were the same as in the first book. Great characters, a really good story and perfect pacing.
The weaknesses are roughly the same. The writing could be better and some of the characters (Liv and Kip) for example, are way too annoying.
But what really irked me this time, was, that he tries to explain the physics of drafting, luxin, coulors. And some things are just plain wrong. You could say "Well, it's fantasy. ...more

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May 21, 2014 Leonardo Pinheiro rated it it was amazing

One of the best fantasy books i've read. Some people may hold something against Kip's school life or Gavin's badassness pointing that are clichés, and they could be right, but even the biggest clichés may become the most interesting subjects when well writen.

I could not recommend this book more, give it a chance and i dare you can stop reading before the end. ...more

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