The Judging Eye

"The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation." —Ajencis, from: The Third Analytic of Men. The Judging Eye which starts off a generation after the events in the conclusion of The Prince of Nothing saga in a four......more

Despite some trepidation with the thought I keep coming back to the idea that R. Scott Bakker’s ‘Prince of Nothing’ and ‘Aspect Emperor’ series are, if not the true inheritors of Tolkien’s legacy, at least the most innovative step forward in the realm of epic fantasy that is consciously derived from......more

Observational aside: I will rarely reread books. Once I finish a book it is usually off to the next one, with few exceptions. In this case the sixth book in the series, The Great Ordeal, is coming out soon, a book I have waited nearly five years for, and I wanted to give myself a refresher on the en......more

R.Scott Bakker, is in my opinion, criminally overlooked by many of the lists discussing the best that fantasy currently has to offer. This book picks up 20 years after the events of The Thousandfold Thought and so there is defiantly a new feel to this book with new POVs characters and different plotl......more

The Judging Eye is the first book in the Aspect-Emperor quartet, picking up some 20 years after the end of the Prince of Nothing Trilogy. Bakker just keeps getting better with each book, this one being my favourite of the four so far. I was wary going in since I had heard that the Aspect-Emperor ser......more