The Blinding Knife
core novel 2012 Lightbringer
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.41 (95,194 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 671 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316068147 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The second novel in Brent Weeks' Lightbringer series picks up shortly after The Black Prism. Gavin Guile, the Prism, is secretly dying with less than a year left to live and faces the pressure of fifty thousand refugees displaced by the previous book's war, a newly acknowledged bastard son in Kip, and an ex-fiancee who may know his darkest secret, all while magic itself begins running wild across the Seven Satrapies in ways the Chromeria struggles to control. Meanwhile Kip trains to become a Blackguard, testing his resolve against rigorous instructors as he discovers the extent of his own magical abilities and tries to find his place within the Chromeria's hierarchy. Gavin works to conceal the truth of his condition while addressing the mounting crises threatening to expose it.
Where it sits
- Universe: Lightbringer
- Series: Lightbringer core; position 2 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Brent Weeks
Notes
- From the series record (Lightbringer): The complete five-book Lightbringer sequence.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Lightbringer: position 2 of 5: previous The Black Prism (2010) · next The Broken Eye (2014)
Sources
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