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Brent Weeks

Author of The Way of Shadows

39+ Works 21,528 Members 569 Reviews 68 Favorited

About the Author

New York Time bestselling author Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. He graduated from Hillsdale College and is the author of the Lightbringer series and the Night Angel series. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Series

Works by Brent Weeks

The Way of Shadows (2008) 5,121 copies
Shadow's Edge (2008) 3,465 copies
The Black Prism (2010) 3,445 copies
Beyond the Shadows (2008) 3,260 copies
The Blinding Knife (2012) 1,638 copies
The Broken Eye (2014) 1,222 copies
Night Angel Trilogy (3-in-1) (2009) 961 copies
The Blood Mirror (2016) 949 copies
The Burning White (2019) 659 copies
Perfect Shadow (2011) 466 copies
Night Angel Nemesis (2023) 131 copies
I, Night Angel 29 copies
Sphären der Macht (2015) 15 copies
Schattenblender (2015) 10 copies
Brennende Spiegel (2020) 4 copies
Lichtbringer (2018) 4 copies
Gorejąca biel. 1 (2020) 3 copies
Gorejąca biel. 2 (2020) 3 copies
Kan Bağı (2023) 1 copy

Associated Works

Epic: Legends of Fantasy (2012) — Foreword — 186 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
Weeks, Brent
Legal name
Weeks, Brent
Birthdate
1977-03-07
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Montana
Places of residence
Montana, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA
Education
Hillsdale College (BA | English)
Occupations
high school English teacher (Salem Academy)
Short biography
Brent Weeks (born March 7, 1977) is an American fantasy writer. His debut novel, The Way of Shadows, hit The New York Times Best Seller list in April 2009. Each of the five books in his Lightbringer Series made the NYT list as well, starting with The Black Prism in 2010. He lives and works near Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kristi, and their two daughters.

Weeks was born in Whitefish, Montana on March 7, 1977. He attended Whitefish High School, and graduated from Hillsdale College in 2000 with a degree in English. He has said that he decided to try writing novels during a semester abroad at Oxford College, an experience that was influential to him personally and professionally. He briefly worked as a teacher at Salem Academy in Oregon and as a bartender before moving to writing full-time.

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Discussions

Fiction Assassin story/ Orbs of power in Name that Book (March 2016)
The Black Prism - Brent Weeks in FF-Leesclub Forum (February 2011)

Reviews

- Great characters
- Great plot
- Interesting hard magic system
- Captivating plot filled with suspense and revelations

The novel felt like a Brandon Sanderson book with a personal spin. Definitely something to read while awaiting the next Stormlight Archives.
 
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Thulan | 98 other reviews | Mar 4, 2024 |
This is my 2nd time thru this series. SUCH a good read...
 
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jazzbird61 | 145 other reviews | Feb 29, 2024 |
UPDATE 9/2/2016: 3rd Times the charm. It earned another star. So looking forward to the next ones.

UPDATE 5/28/14: I must have been in a bad mood the 1st time that I read this book. Or maybe I was pissed at yet another cliffhanger book. I won't take back my review from the 1st round but I will add that at the end of the book this time, I let out an 'f' bomb. You know "This book was ------ great!"?
Yeah, that.

(9/14/12)I'm not sure I'm happy with this one. IMO, there wasn't enough development although a lot of stuff happened. I feel like either it should have ended sooner or been extended a few more chapters. It just stopped.

This is not to say that I wasn't glued to this book enjoying every minute. It just made me wish I could wait to read the entire series all at once.

This is probably the most tepid review for a 4-star book that I've ever done so I guess I'll stop here.
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jazzbird61 | 48 other reviews | Feb 29, 2024 |
UPDATE 9/5/2016: I know why I didn't like this one as much.
Spoiler hidden - I didn't like (HATED) that Kip married Tisis. It seemed like such a boneheaded move by someone who should have been smarter than that. And I never bought that he was backed into a corner to justify the move.
But I guess I swallowed that distaste a bit better this time and wanted to give it an extra star. I still wish the book had been longer, and wish even more that this was a trilogy. I want to know the WHOLE story NOW! Weeks is really doing a great job with this series. It is firmly on the re-read shelf.

ORIGINAL REVIEW: I'm not sure that I liked this one as much as the previous books. For much of the book, I kept asking myself when something was going to happen. Nor did I feel that the character development moved along enough to account for the 'delay in action'. Don't get me wrong--the book was good--it might be a more fair assessment to assume that we should have gotten one really long book to end the series instead of two. While enjoyable (very), I came away feeling like this was a bit of half a story.
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21,528
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Rating
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ISBNs
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Favorited
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