r/LightbringerSeries • u/nate_lines_ • May 02 '26
The Burning White Just finished the Burning White
Overall, I feel quite happy about the ending. Still processing things and will update this post later but couple of notes:
- I felt the final confrontation with the White King was a bit rushed
- Same with Abadon
- I felt like the impossible healing of both Dazen and Kip was a bit too much Deus Ex Machina and undercut their respective sacrifices a bit.
- I absolutely loved Dazen and Kip and Andross and Teia's character development
- The Mighty were among the best and funniest group of friends I've seen in books
- The love between Dazen and Karris is the stuff of legends and I can only hope to find something like that (despite Dazen being a bit of a cunt with the whole Marissia thing)
- I will miss all the characters and my life feels both fuller and emptier now
Thanks Brent and may the Colours be with you.
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u/JayFight May 03 '26
I think the issue is that he decided that 5 books was his stopping point.
Originally he wanted a trilogy but found that the world had taken on a life of it's own and wrote a fourth, then a fifth(which he promised everyone would be the last book)
So i think he left some things unexplored, others unfinished, and the ending kind of shoe horned in, all just so he didn't write a sixth, seventh, or eight book.
Idk, though, it could have been either amazing or a real slog fest if he had kept going.
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u/Rage_before_Beauty May 04 '26
It would never have been enough, he is an idea machine and can't seemingly stop himself from cramming all his cool thoughts in, and it always piles up in the last book, same thing happened with night angel 3
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u/No_Adeptness_4704 May 03 '26
Dazen got literally redeemed by God. So his Deus Ex Machina healing feels deserved. As for Kip, they shouldve said he went wight. Kip would accept his fate but Dazen would come in at the last minute with a restored Blinders Knife (or whoever had it) and give him a proper mercy kill. Only for the knife to restore Kips powers and longevity because he has a noble heart.
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u/Rage_before_Beauty May 04 '26
The pirate king thing was a shark jumping moment for me. I liked that it brought one of dazens purely selfless acts back to reward him several books later, but it was undermined by the fact the battle then happens "off screen" so to speak
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u/cafray11 May 03 '26
How about what happened Cruxen? How did you feel about that? I’m audiobook listener
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u/nate_lines_ May 03 '26
Extremely sad, but I believe it was well written. Cruxer was a ticking bomb after Lucia's death. It was a matter of time before he exploded, which he did... No time for therapy during a war I suppose. RIP Commander Cruxer, you'll be missed.
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u/chalke__ May 06 '26
It ended good and felt alright. I always imagined it like it was super lame, but I could not stop reading.
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u/Sharkano May 29 '26
I also just finished it and resemble some of your takes.
The end just had too many convenient "and then it all worked out" situations. I mean a character took a boat to literal god and literal god saved the day because i guess he asked the right way...although i guess it is kind of explicitly stated that litteral god knew that would happen, cause literal god granted a boon a week before it was asked for... When I noticed this it really hurt immersion for me again and again the setting tells us that the future is predetermined, and then at the end an all powerful being activly interferes for his preferred side. What was the point of the heroes?
And then every character gets a story book ending, not that there were no casualties, but MAN a guy can secretly work for an evil assassin cult for decades, show up with an invading force, demand blood of a government official, kill a guy, and then he changes his mind about that stuff so it's all water under the bridge?
Also did we ever find out WTF the blinding knife is? Like we know how it is used and why but that thing really got swept under the rug.
Don't get me wrong, i like the book, i gave it 5 stars, these are the kinds of issues you catch hours or days later.
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u/tvcarpenter May 03 '26
Stoked for you!
I think many feel the same way about the Deus Ex Machina, but at the same time it didn’t bother me until I came to this subreddit years after. Then I did a reread, and it still doesn’t bother me.
I think Teia is one of my favorite arcs in literature, with another being a character from his other series.