The Blinding Knife is a 2012 epic fantasy novel by New York Times Bestselling author Brent Weeks, and it is the second book in his Lightbringer series, following The Black Prism.

[1] The novel is written from the third-person perspective of several characters and follows the protagonist, Kip Guile, as he discovers his latent magical powers.

Each card represents a person or significant object from the time when that deck was created, with rules for its use in the game that parallel the advantages and drawbacks in the real world.

Kip attempts this with a random card, and his mind is transported to a ship where an old man writes a treasonous letter to a friend regarding the red God.

The Prism returns to the Chromeria, having lost both green and blue, to rally the spectrum for war with the Color Prince.

Through a great deal of political maneuvering, he succeeds, though not without making enemies of red, blue, and yellow, and removing green altogether.

Meanwhile, the real Gavin escapes his green prison, thanks to blue bread provided by the Prism's room slave.

Kip also kills several of the giants guarding him with his dagger, causing them to revert to their normal human form with all their luxin drained from their bodies.

The Prism briefly considers killing Kip to retrieve the knife before Andross can, but instead stabs himself with it before diving off the ship.

Having promised her more than she could possibly imagine for completing her task, he delivers on this by insinuating that, once a Superviolet bane is created, he will choose her to be its avatar.

Publishers Weekly gave a mostly positive review of The Blinding Knife, praising its flaws as "realistic" while stating that the book was "familiar.

"[3] RT Book Reviews called it a "decent effort" but wrote that it felt "derivative of previous epic fantasies and science fiction works like Ender’s Game.