Book Review: The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

The Black Prism
(Lightbringer #1)
by Brent Weeks

Publication Date: August 25th 2010
Publisher: Orbit
Pages: 678
Genre: Fantasy
Source: Own

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Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live: Five years to achieve five impossible goals.

But when Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.

My Thoughts

What I like about this book is the world, the magic system and the characters.  Everything is just really well-thought-out and the character's for the most part are really layered.  There was one character that I was not a fan of, Kip, I did not like his character.  I would be fine if his character was kill off.  But obviously he probably shouldn't because he is probably important.  But other than that I pretty much liked every character that was put into the story they are really interesting.

I love how so many characters are very morally gray. Our main hero of the story Gavin is very morally gray, he has done a lot of really horrible stuff and it's continuing to do horrible stuff in the present time in order to accomplish his goals. I think most people would  like Gavin but you don't like everything he does.  There's this conflict of I like you but there's so much that you do that I hate.  I think that build some greatly interesting characters.

I just think in general the plot isn't the biggest focus of the story at least not in book one but in every other element it's so well built.  

I'm just going to summarize I thought the book was excellent I didn't think everything was perfectly executed and because of that I'm giving it 4.5 stars instead of 5.  I thought that it was such a great story with such great characters and so much potential for what's to come and the series.  I enjoyed myself with this book from start to finish, I thought it was so great.  I can't wait to continue on the book 2.

xoxo,

Shon