#burning white

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happy new years Air!!!

KEEP INKING ❤️ 🖋️

YAYYAYA HAPPY NEW YEARRR!!🫂🫂🫂 (very late sorry I was thinking about what to draw for ya)

Character I forgot if Ink had a nickname of wjksnf I got confused I'm too lazy to fix what I said by @timmywn <3

[necarion]

I really wish the Lightbringer books didn't keep undercutting themselves, because I wish I could recommend them. There is at least one substantial plotline that turns out to be entirely misleading (unreliable narrator, except the narrator is the 3rd person limited variety) to the point I now skip the scenes during rereads.

And then there are a ton of worldbuilding details that get withheld until the last book, major questions that have been asked from the very beginning, which end up delivered with "I guess I need to tell you these things now". But because there are so many of them, a lot of them are underconsidered (in terms of consequences), under-explained, overcomplicated, and underwhelming. The final book in the series has tons of action, but there is much less character work in the action because we've already gone through most of the character arcs.

I still enjoy books 1-4 a lot! And book 5 isn't terrible, but it's by far the longest one (375k words and 25% longer than the next-longest), and it is disappointing enough that makes me hesitant to recommend the entire 1.3M word series.

Minor (vague) spoilers below.

"Yes, this important and story-critical magical artifact was totally broken for hundreds of years via a mechanism we don't explain, but was fixed right at the start of the story via a mechanism we don't explain, and we shall tell this to you during the epilogue."

Bad guys end up just losing en-masse because of one good sneaky plan, meaning the plan they've been building for decades doesn't happen. Also, we never actually know why they're doing this?

Good guys end up having their flaws explained to them in-detail and are now better people.

Multiple literal cases of plot-saving deus ex machina. (At least 4 I can think of).

God, I really want to talk about one of those. Maybe I'll put it in the next post under a read-more.

[brongusthearcanist]

Ok I NEED people who were around and paying attention to Lightbringer (Brent Weeks) when it was coming out. I love the series but I think everyone knows what I'm talking about when I saw WTF happened in Blood Mirror. I'm halfway through burning white cause I need to know how this ends.

The series always struck me as well outlined, with lots of foreshadowing. I mean for fucks sake the title Black Prism isn't really explained until book 3 at least. Which I like and kinda makes me think he didn't just make it up at the last minute. But I also refuse to believe that Brent would've written POVs for a character that was never real. I have no problem with Gavin being the Black Prism, and the memory loss. BUT GAVIN DYING BEFORE THE BOOK STARTS AND WE'VE BEEN WATCHING A HALLUCINATION, makes very little sense to me. I heard something about Brent having lost the manuscript for either book 3 or 4 and had to rewrite it, but idk if that is true. Someone please tell me why he did this!!!!

Side note, I still really like the writing and the magic, characters, and world. The story is so tightly written but this plot point is super odd.

[masterheartsxiii]

What the fuck Adrasteia!

[incorrect-brent-weeks-quotes]

Attention everyone! I'm making memes! Depending on how this goes I might post more of them here, if not Instagram is the place to go for all Brent Weeks related memes!

[alicepi]