The Warrior Prophet Review (minor spoilers) - Favourite book of the year? 

Hi good review video!! Happy reading to you! 🎥🦋

'Cut and cut and cut' - that'll come back latter in an unexpected way

Truth shines, sister!

Looking forward to this one!

I shared this video to the Bakker Reddit and Facebook groups :)

Only five more books to go!

It’s between this and Judging Eye for my favourite Bakker book, the series as a whole is my favourite of all time 🤩

Very much looking forward to spoiler reviews, one thing I’ll NEVER forget from this book is that EPILOGUE !! 😮 O M G….. ‘WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?’ 😱😱😱

I'm so glad you took the time to read some quotes at the end!

My favorite Author. The Aspect Emperor series is even better.

Love Bakker

Nice review!! Jimmy Nutts loved this series so I'm interested for sure.

What did you think about the hints at the greater lore/ancient history? The Battleplain, and the HERON SPEAR?? :)

Great review. Its a great series, one of the best out there imo(tho on my first read I was actually a lot more critical than you, giving it like 3/5 overall, only after my re-read it really grew on me, and became 5/5). You should definitely read the next series following PoN. Its a lot less popular than PoN but its just as good (though it is quite different, it gets even more philosophical). Also minor feedback from me - I think you should put the quotes on the screen in text format when saying them. Would make it easier to follow in my opinion.

I am very happy you like so much these books. I feel they are so underappreciated. I think they are the kind of books that you could use when clueless random people underestimate the fantasy genre. Bakker is such a great author. His writing is beautiful but so punching and insightful at the same time. The more you read the more it will feel like some kind of sacred scriptures. In regards of the characters, I will only add that Cnaiur is my favourite of all times and persevere with Esmenet. Her Odyssey is long and has many ups and downs yet till you reach the end of the seventh book.

Kind of book that need to be discuss around fan friends with a bottle of wine. Quotes are just phenomenal in Prince Of Nothing/Aspect Emperor. When you encounter one you just freeze a moment and lost yourself in a deep philosophical thinking

Glad you still like it, good luck with the Thousandfold Thought. Re. the philosophical aspect of TSA, I think Bakker's neatly summarized his whole premise in the opening quote of the first book - "One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten". If TSA is "about" anything, it's about exploring the limitations of knowledge, about how our perspectives keep us captive. - The Dunyain were forgotten for two thousand years, so when they reemerged, the worldborn men had no "walls" to raise against them; they were like helpless children. - The Dunyain themselves also forgot all the irrationalities of the outside world, so when they encounter stuff like Sorcery, they're defenseless against it. - The Consult were forgotten for three hundred years, so now their agents can move unseen, wearing the faces of men. - The Gods were unable to see the No-God (and seeing is knowing), so they are doomed to extinction at its hands.

Yesss. So happy you liked it! I can’t wait for your reaction to the next book. And yeah, poor Akka. But he sings a good song~~

Love this book! My favorite of the trilogy. I probably had The Darkness That Comes Before around 4.5 stars when I first read it, so I had high expectations for this one going in, but was still completely blown away by it. I walked away from this one thinking that The Second Apocalypse might be my favorite series of all time and I still had five more books to read.

Such an amazing book! The Warrior Prophet is my favourite of the first three books. I must have tabbed over 100 parts within it when I did a re-read recently. Definitely, as you mentioned, the battle scenes are excellent. Cnaiur is one of my favourite characters ever. Layer upon layer of introspection within him. I like how you made the comparison with Logen. Both characters deconstruct and break apart the typical barbarian archetype.

Thanks for another good review and sharing my love of this series so far. I just started book three.

I loved hearing your thoughts on this book, Zara! I also think Bakker does something special with the battle scenes. I love the way he created the holy war atmosphere with hoards of people, song, banners, carnage, and even mastodons. I was at first a little put off with the merging of Esmenet and Kellus in this book, but it really built the foundation of betrayal: "Whore after all." 😫I just started A Thousandfold Thought and will check out your review for that one when I finish!

Just finished my re-read, i always knew i adored it but i didn't realised just how much i overlooked or had forgotten from my first read. Truly a phenomenal book!

It is clear to me as someone who read the books as they were published that these books are building an audience year-over-year. These books will be considered literature in the future in the same way people appreciate Frank Herbert and JRR Tolkien as masterworks at what they are trying to accomplish. The strange thing is that those of us who have finished the whole series are transformed by it to a greater or lesser degree. No one finishes the series as the same person who started the series. It opens you to so many ideas, considerations, moral approaches, and conflicting epistemologies. It also is a book steeped in messages for us now in this time and at this place. It is a cautionary tale of how we can program our own destruction, figuratively by what we choose or maybe more accurately what we unquestioningly accept. As an aside, whatever you think right now at the end of book 2 as the point of the series, you are probably wrong. TRUTH SHINES!

Just wait until you get to the second part of the overarching series. Things get WILD, immensely wild. Like Dune books 4-6 went to another level so do books 4-7 of the Second Apocalypse.

Just finished this recently and into Thousandfold. Yes, this book took a very dark turn in a hurry which was really missing in Darkness. Started thinking of Kelhus as Jorg Atredies to mash up some series. The writing is very good. But unfortunately he uses words or phrases that take me out of the fantasy setting. Cubicle was very jarring. And yes, the Crusades and Xian eschatology is all over the series. I also got an allusion to Odin nailing himself to Ygdrassil sacrificing himself to himself to be granted the secret of the runes. Was a little disappointed in Esmi as well but am curious as to where it goes. And have some thought on a few other things that will have to wait.

Zara, you are doing brilliant work covering these books. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on the trilogy as a whole and of course, the Aspect-Emperor.