Brent Weeks
Author of The Way of Shadows
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
Gunner's Apprentice 50 copies
I, Night Angel 30 copies
Brent Weeks 5 Books Collection Set (The Black Prism, The Blinding Knife, The Broken Eye, The Blood Mirror, The Burning… (2019) 6 copies
Lightbringer Series Brent Weeks Collection 3 Books Bundle (The Black Prism, The Blinding Knife, The Broken Eye) (2017) 3 copies
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- 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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Fiction Assassin story/ Orbs of power in Name that Book (March 2016)
The Black Prism - Brent Weeks in FF-Leesclub Forum (February 2011)
Reviews
The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer, 2) by Brent Weeks
A definite improvement on the first book. The writing still isn't perfect (though much improved), and a lot of the characters are still pretty irrational (what's the deal with everyone just letting Andross do whatever he wants when he's clearly nuts/totally powerless?), but the story picks up in this book and that really carries it through.
It's better than the first book, but that's really not saying much. This series could have been much better if it had had a better plot, better writing, and better characterization.
Oh, wait..
Overall, a disappointment. While I appreciated Weeks' willingness to be honest with the realities of war, very little else impressed me in this series - would not recommend.
Oh, wait..
Overall, a disappointment. While I appreciated Weeks' willingness to be honest with the realities of war, very little else impressed me in this series - would not recommend.
Better than the previous book, still not good writing.
The Way of Shadows was quite bad. The writing was poor, the plot was badly paced, the characters were all strangely misogynistic (which can work sometimes if you sell it in the context of the world, but he completely did not do that). By the end I was basically laboring to finish it, still without a solid grasp of all the words.
Future writers of fantasy, if you can flip to a page of your book and there are 10 words on it that you cant define ex-ante, the book is probably terrible.
Future writers of fantasy, if you can flip to a page of your book and there are 10 words on it that you cant define ex-ante, the book is probably terrible.
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- Works
- 39
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 21,751
- Popularity
- #988
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 577
- ISBNs
- 297
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- 12
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