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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Trilogy, Great Reading!, December 2, 2009
I recommend the Night Angel Trilogy to anyone who is interested. I enjoyed the Trilogy and had all three books read in less than a month. Brent Weeks knows how to keep the action moving and the pages turning. The story is fantastic and there are moments of pure awesomeness that will leave your head spinning. The characters are well written and very likable. The world is believable and the peoples who inhabit it are intriguing. In short, very well done.
Now I do have a few complaints. If you're prone to judge a book by its cover, these covers are very misleading. Kylar, the main character, is not how the covers portray him. (Assuming the guy on the covers is Kylar). See in the story there are people with magical powers and those without. Those who can use magic are called "Wetboys", and those who cannot are called "Assassins". The guy on the cover appears to be an Assassin. I can't help but wonder if they were trying to capitalize on the "Assassin's Creed" look. "Wetboys" dress in different colors.
Another minor complaint is that the final book almost feels as if it were rushed. In other words, their could have been a fourth book and all would have been fine. However there are three and the final battle and all that leads up to it is rushed. There are also a few characters that are forgotten. They are not major characters however, they are characters that I would have liked to see get their comeuppance.
Once again, minor complaints aside, if you like Fantasy than get these books. You will not regret it.
*Update 11/28/2010*
I just wanted to add that this series does have some very strong violence. I was reading through the comments and one of them brings up just how much violence is actually in the first book alone. So be advised that if you're allowing younger kids than 16 to read this, it does have violence towards young kids, sexual violence, and other very graphic scenes. Thanks to A. Jones for bringing this up in the comments.
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27 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy it, you don't need to read this, just buy it., January 7, 2010
I am an avid fantasy fan, I spend alot of time sifting through piles of the same-old-crap and only rarely come across books as good as these. I was so grateful that I got all 3 books at once, it would have been devastating if I would have had to wait to read the next after devouring each so quickly.
The story begins with a boy being apprenticed to the best wetboy there has ever been. A wetboy being a sort of assassin with magical abilities, but after reading these books you will understand why I say 'assassin' with a bit of reluctance and disdain. "Assassins have targets, wetboys have deaders."
These coming-of-age stories have always been my favorite kind and this series truly delivers in every way. Mainly, you can't wait for when Kylar comes into his own and boy, does he! I love the characters, I love how so many of them grow and change. I ache for each of them that has to learn something the hard way. There are swords and magic, tragedy and triumph, what more can you ask for?
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing debut series!, July 16, 2009
This review is from: Night Angel Trilogy: The Way of Shadows / Shadow's Edge / Beyond the Shadows (Hardcover)
I'm quite impressed with Brent Week's debut, Night Angel. He paints a very vivid world in which many people from many different backgrounds come together to survive, to help, to fight and to love. That in itself is not so new, but Weeks' characters are so incredibly detailed and believable! Ordinarily, I will skim over fight scenes a bit, mainly I guess because action scenes can be hard to describe and still hold the reader's attention. But, Weeks presents his action scenes so well, you can't help but be totally engrossed! All that and a bag of tricks! I haven't been this enthusiastic over any series in quite a long time, and then to realise this is his first attempt to break into the genre... Wow. I can't wait to find out what he will decide to tackle next.
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