The Judging Eye: Book Review
I just finished reading The Judging Eye, which is the first book in the Aspect-Emperor series, which is in turn the second series within the larger Second Apocalypse series by R. Scott Bakker. The book picks up twenty years after The Prince of Nothing. Before I begin, this whole review will have spoilers of that initial series because there really is no way to talk about this series without do so. Click off now if you want to protect yourself. Anasûrimbor Kellhus has taken over the Three Seas to form an empire, and now, after twenty years of painstaking care and preparation, Kellhus is now declaring a Great Ordeal that will march up to Golgotterath to destroy the Consult before they can resurrect the No-God. It is the ultimate gamble taken to stop the world from ending. It took me about a month to get through this book, which is longer than any of the other entries. This is in part because I chose to read the story slower, because Bakker is so dense as a writer, and in part because th