Logan Gyre is king of Cenaria, a country under siege, with a threadbare army and little hope. He has one chance - a desperate gamble, but one that ...
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Jan 15, 2009
Shari Mulluane
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Every hint, every misdirection, every barely noticed event comes together in ways that make perfect sense, but surprise you nonetheless. Brent Weeks forces his characters to make impossible, painful decisions at every turn. The type of multilayered decisions where no matter what, somebody will suffer the consequences and often that somebody is the person they love most. The type of decisions where the right one is rarely the obvious choice and even self-sacrifice is not always the right path to
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Apr 03, 2009
Danielle
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Aug 11, 2011
Stephen
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4.0 to 4.5 stars. Outstanding conclusion to an outstanding series. Brent Weeks has created a superb world with original and well thought out magical systems and creatures. All of the loose ends begun in the first two novels, The Way of Shadows and Shadow's Edge are tied up tight as a drum and brought to a very satisfying conclusion. This series joins the ranks of one of the best fantasy series of recent years and I can not wait for the next book by this author. Highly recommended!!
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Jun 27, 2010
Kate
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Oh my god this book was terrible.
The first book in the trilogy, I liked. Started off a bit dark, cracked along at a pace, lots of twists and turns and all in all a good read if slightly melodramatic with some truly terrible prose. Also I liked the idea of this "Night Angel" superhero and I loved Durzo's character.
Second book: began a bit like a teenage boys wet dream. Quite annoying really and quite strange to read as an adult. I found all the descriptions about how Elene w More...
The first book in the trilogy, I liked. Started off a bit dark, cracked along at a pace, lots of twists and turns and all in all a good read if slightly melodramatic with some truly terrible prose. Also I liked the idea of this "Night Angel" superhero and I loved Durzo's character.
Second book: began a bit like a teenage boys wet dream. Quite annoying really and quite strange to read as an adult. I found all the descriptions about how Elene w More...
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May 28, 2010
Arthur
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End of the journey.
Good and fitting final. Touching, moving with powerful emotions.
My deepest admiration is for Elena. Hat’s off.
Kylar, Durzo, Count Drake are my favourites. Even the Wolf.
However, there a few glaring drawbacks that I cannot dismiss.
First of all, the whole trilogy was a bit short on history of Midcyru. Brent Weeks has probably realised it and attempted to force feed us large chunks of it in the last book but it didn’t go very smoothly.
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Good and fitting final. Touching, moving with powerful emotions.
My deepest admiration is for Elena. Hat’s off.
Kylar, Durzo, Count Drake are my favourites. Even the Wolf.
However, there a few glaring drawbacks that I cannot dismiss.
First of all, the whole trilogy was a bit short on history of Midcyru. Brent Weeks has probably realised it and attempted to force feed us large chunks of it in the last book but it didn’t go very smoothly.
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Jan 06, 2009
Myridian
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So a few things bugged me about this book, but overall it was a good read. This is the final novel in the Night Angel trilogy. In it, Kylar is faced with challenges to his emotional growth on the way to saving the world. So the things I didn't like.... Again the novel took much too long to get going. I was at least 140 pgs in before I started getting sucked into the story. Also, Weeks again chose to follow way too many characters. He jumped from one vantage point to another with each chap
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Mar 28, 2009
Caroline
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Sigh. The whole idea that doe-eyed innocence is sexy repulses me. This book does a little too much of that to keep me happy, even though assassin main character is also erotically connected to a different (non-innocent) lady. Whatever. The big fight scene also left me a bit cold. It was a just a bit too... too. Not quite deus ex machina and not quite ridiculous. But just not fun.
Still: a satisfying read. When time melts, I get happy.
Still: a satisfying read. When time melts, I get happy.
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Jan 05, 2009
Nathan
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This book had a very satisfying and very clean ending. I've been disappointed in the recent past how many series just sort of END, without any real resolution to the main plot, let alone many of the sub plots. It's as if the author lost the last third of his final manuscript three days before it was due to the publisher and had to put everything together on the fly.
Not so here.
While not everything is resolved (leaving open the possibility for more in this world), ever More...
Not so here.
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Nov 29, 2008
Ruhegeist
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I really enjoyed this whole series. Always fun to root for the "bad" guys, too bad they turn out to be good. The truly dark bits are in the first book and early on. They are not as well sustained throughout, giving way to a more clear definition on who's good and bad. While cetainly not as well written or complex as Carey's Kushiel series, these books were absorbing; a lighter, easier read, with more frequent humor. This you can also see if you are as big a dork as I who reads the
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Sep 11, 2011
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Sep 10, 2011
Holjo
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In this final installment of the Night Angel Trilogy, we find ourselves at the Battlefield of Pavvil’s Grove, where Logan Gyre defeated the Khalidorians at the end of Shadow’s Edge. Queen Terah Graesin did absolutely nothing to save her people, so she is clearly questioning whether Logan will be challenging her for the throne. As is always the case with Logan, he keeps his promise to be loyal to Terah. Despite everything he has gone through, Logan is an honorable man.
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Jul 27, 2011
Thus ends another trilogy. Overall, I was disappointed with Beyond the Shadows. In Way of the Shadows Weeks spun a marvelous tale for us. He hooked me deep. In Shadow's Edge Weeks continued a great story. I felt that Beyond the Shadows was a poor ending to a great beginning.
What I felt was the biggest upset in this book was that Weeks stopped showing us the story. Instead, he told us what happened. As any good author knows, show, don't tell. We would flip between characters, sometimes More...
What I felt was the biggest upset in this book was that Weeks stopped showing us the story. Instead, he told us what happened. As any good author knows, show, don't tell. We would flip between characters, sometimes More...
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Jul 08, 2011
Dave
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I was really looking forward to this final piece of the trilogy. I liked the first book, and really loved the second one. This one was somewhat disappointing, and not just because it didn't meet too high expectations. The plotting was good, with some nice twists, the worldbuilding was interesting enough and there was the same cast of quite interesting characters.
The main problem is that the story is too rushed. Weeks tried to cram two books into one, it seems, and that didn't work we More...
The main problem is that the story is too rushed. Weeks tried to cram two books into one, it seems, and that didn't work we More...
Mar 16, 2011
Jacob
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(My review from: Drying Ink reposted)
There seems to be a rule with these things: for every series that dramatically and surprisingly improves, there's one whose finale is just not up to its previous standard. Unfortunately, while Stonewielder remained firmly in the former category, Beyond the Shadows definitely falls into the latter. While the first two books are capably written, fast paced, and ridden with dilemmas for the protagonist, Kylar, an assassin who has become the mystical and im More...
There seems to be a rule with these things: for every series that dramatically and surprisingly improves, there's one whose finale is just not up to its previous standard. Unfortunately, while Stonewielder remained firmly in the former category, Beyond the Shadows definitely falls into the latter. While the first two books are capably written, fast paced, and ridden with dilemmas for the protagonist, Kylar, an assassin who has become the mystical and im More...
Jan 25, 2011
Benjamin
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Last night I was able to finish up Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks, the concluding volume in the "Night Angel" trilogy of fantasy novels. Mr Weeks continues to be a major new talent in the fantasy genre in my opinion, but I felt this one to be a step below the second and two steps below the first...if that makes sense.
The first book of the trilogy, The Way of Shadows, was extremely good; a well-constructed novel that left me breathless with anticipation for the next two More...
The first book of the trilogy, The Way of Shadows, was extremely good; a well-constructed novel that left me breathless with anticipation for the next two More...
Jan 12, 2011
Tanner
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Jan 11, 2011
Ithlilian
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I couldn't have asked for more for the conclusion of this great series. All of our characters join together in this book for an epic conclusion that will bring 4 kingdoms together, or tear the entire world apart.
The first 400 pages or so of this novel are strong. The side plots that took a back seat in previous installments are given much more airtime, and we learn plenty about our favorite characters. We get a sense that all of the plots are going to come together in some way, and it More...
The first 400 pages or so of this novel are strong. The side plots that took a back seat in previous installments are given much more airtime, and we learn plenty about our favorite characters. We get a sense that all of the plots are going to come together in some way, and it More...
Jan 03, 2011
Marc
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It takes a special kind of author to write three books and have them sold consecutively on a monthly basis… Typically a fantasy trilogy will take between three and four years from the first through until the last book is released. This allows time for readers to finish a book, have a bit of a change and then re-visit a world about a year later…
When Brent Weeks wrote the Night Angel Trilogy his publishers weren’t prepared to make us wait a year for each book. This ‘one month’ wait betwe More...
When Brent Weeks wrote the Night Angel Trilogy his publishers weren’t prepared to make us wait a year for each book. This ‘one month’ wait betwe More...
Nov 04, 2010
Kurtis
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This book was the end of the series, and was also the best. Sure it made some mistakes, both in storytelling and in cliche - fantastical things happening too quickly after another, chance going the Heros way too often, the unexpected returning from certain death when they are needed most, overpowerful mages, overpowerful armies, and of course sudden revelations in the book which hadn't been foreshadowed or event hinted at. But for all that the book finishes the series in an epic climax, full o
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Nov 04, 2010
Okken
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This is one of the most coherent and vividly emotional fantasy novels I have ever read. In the first pages, the characters have been fully fleshed out; each from their position in the rising action back to their origins. Each of them behaves as I have come to expect them to from the first two books but still I was never, as I so often am when reading fiction, on the verge of prophesying the end of the cycle at the end of each chapter. Weeks wove the threads of the fates of Midcyru's kingdoms
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Aug 05, 2010
Cherry
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I liked the story telling-quality of Brent Weeks. I would give the story-telling quality per sey a score of 5 out of 5. And I would have given this book 4 out of 5 if not for the ending. It is just too, too drawn out. Too dramatic to the point of embarassing to read!!
Another reason this book got lower than 4, is that there are loose ends in the story. Like for example, who is going to lead the people of Khalidor? Since their one stalwart leader has gone More...
I liked the story telling-quality of Brent Weeks. I would give the story-telling quality per sey a score of 5 out of 5. And I would have given this book 4 out of 5 if not for the ending. It is just too, too drawn out. Too dramatic to the point of embarassing to read!!
Another reason this book got lower than 4, is that there are loose ends in the story. Like for example, who is going to lead the people of Khalidor? Since their one stalwart leader has gone More...
Aug 01, 2010
Sueij
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(same review as for book 1) I'll have to review the three books of the trilogy together, because the distinctions between #1, #2 and #3 blur for me. I found these on the "staff recommends" shelf at my locally owned bookstore, which is always a good start. The staffer said that people often buy the first, then come back for the second and third. With good reason, I think!
The characters are fantastic. They change and grow, sometimes in really unexpected ways. The conflicts ar More...
The characters are fantastic. They change and grow, sometimes in really unexpected ways. The conflicts ar More...
Jun 28, 2010
Khaled
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Strong finale to the Night Angel Trilogy. While not as strong as the second novel, I am, overall, satisfied with this book and the trilogy.
My previous reviews have expounded upon the positives of the series as a whole, but I did mention that 1 negative was that Logan Gyre has not always been a believable character.
On the whole, his character just smacks too much of the 'knight in shining armor' figure, even after his 'toughening' in book 2. I just couldn't buy his figure as More...
My previous reviews have expounded upon the positives of the series as a whole, but I did mention that 1 negative was that Logan Gyre has not always been a believable character.
On the whole, his character just smacks too much of the 'knight in shining armor' figure, even after his 'toughening' in book 2. I just couldn't buy his figure as More...
Jun 05, 2010
Sandy
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Mar 27, 2010
Chris
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I am a little disappointed. Maybe that is unsurprising. The ending reeked of Deus ex Machina, relied on the behavior and actions of previously very minor characters, left much that was important in the dark, though spent much time on trivialities. There were also several new themes which were introduced. Okay for the third book in a 5-10 book series. Unforgivable in a trilogy. It also tried to preach a bunch of morals and ethics as well as to have some light-hearted, thwarted romance with a self
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Dec 11, 2009
D.w.
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It doesn't end with a whimper, but the other way. In the previous two outings of this series we had several more of the unexpected plot twists that had elevated this series beyond the stereotype of the genre.
So my opening is stereotypical as a review for an ending to a trilogy, as is the story. Weeks however delivers action, depth, plot and fun along the way. It makes us look for more than we get, as if Weeks almost rushed to tie up a few loose ends, but adds in some new dimensions so More...
So my opening is stereotypical as a review for an ending to a trilogy, as is the story. Weeks however delivers action, depth, plot and fun along the way. It makes us look for more than we get, as if Weeks almost rushed to tie up a few loose ends, but adds in some new dimensions so More...
Aug 07, 2009
Padraigh
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Jul 24, 2009
Jared
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An excellent new fantasy series by newcomer Brent Weeks. It is definitely one of the best I have read. These books are second only to the likes of Martin, and....OK fine...Jordan. These books have all the elements of fantasy without coming off as cliche. The night angel is part ninja, part mage, part demigod.
Nearly every character is complex, and most of them live in morally gray areas, which makes them more human. The plot and pace of this first installment is relentless. More...
Nearly every character is complex, and most of them live in morally gray areas, which makes them more human. The plot and pace of this first installment is relentless. More...
Apr 18, 2009
Candace
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After trawling through the other two books of the Night Angel trilogy, The Way of Shadows and Shadow's Edge, I was hoping this final installment would give some kind of exciting depth to the world, the characters, and the overall story. I was disappointed to find this wasn't the case. Much like the other two books, while the main character is the wetboy (assassin) Kylar Stern, the viewpoint switches between the other characters of the main cast. This gives a good overview of the plot, which is c
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Jan 16, 2012
Laura Karina
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Now that was just silly.
The book felt rushed and crammed of information that was spoon fed by plot devices (read: characters), and not shown by the tale itself.
The parts that weren't rushed were fight descriptions, which unless they're really well done can bore me, and angsty lovey-dovey crap, which bore me unless there's an actual point to them- save for one or two parts that could have been shorter, I didn't think there was much of a point in them.
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The book felt rushed and crammed of information that was spoon fed by plot devices (read: characters), and not shown by the tale itself.
The parts that weren't rushed were fight descriptions, which unless they're really well done can bore me, and angsty lovey-dovey crap, which bore me unless there's an actual point to them- save for one or two parts that could have been shorter, I didn't think there was much of a point in them.
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