Light Bringer

Light Bringer

2022 • 686 pages

Ratings113

Average rating4.7

15

I think this is easily my favorite book of this series. I looked over my last reviews for books 4/5 (or 1/2 depending on how you count them) and I guess this was originally a trilogy and now its 4 books (or maybe I just assumed a second trilogy), so I had kind of thought this was the last book when I started it.

It does appear the last book will be out much sooner than this one was, so maybe as he was writing the final book he realized he had too much he wanted to do and split it in two.

I still prefer the Darrow chapters to all the others, but Lyria and Virginia were interesting as well.

Lysander is still far less enjoyable to read, but necessary to getting a big chunk of the plot. Overall I thought this book was more in lines with books 2 & 3 of the original trilogy and less like books 1, 4 & 5. Hopefully the final book will be as enjoyable if not more so.

The narration by Tim Gerard Reynolds is spectacular as always. I haven't listened to a book read by him in a while. He does a variety of voices and you can tell when the protagonist swaps in a new chapter simply by the way he reads them. I highly recommend the audio version.

August 30, 2023