I found the first half of the first volume to be the darkest, and as such I enjoyed it the least. I'm glad I continued on though because Weeks really hits his stride in the series in book two and much of book three. He manages to pull the reader into his world, and his fast pace writing and development was different, but very welcome. It seemed to work cohesively with his timeline in the Night Angel story arc.

Despite his vibrant array of characters, I found I only truly liked Dorian, Solon, and Kylar--and moderately Durzo and Momma K. Weeks did a great job of creating a colourful destiny for each of the characters although the third book ends without some story-lines feeling resolved. (view spoiler)[Durzo's relationship with both Uly and Momma were left wanting, as well as, Kylar and the ka'kari--the last I read he had handed it back to Durzo. Soon after Kylar's talk with the Wolf, I would have liked to hear that inner dialogue between Kylar and the ka'kari one last time. I also would have liked for Dorian, Solon, and Feir to have had more closure than a one liner saying Dorian was being cared for by Feir. Also, the status of the 'fraud' and real Curoch and Retribution right after the group magic session is a minor detail I would have liked explained a bit more, i.e. who gets which copy. (hide spoiler)] However, the Night Angel was an enthralling hero and main character very unlike any other I've read in other fantasy. A similar series is Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, but I found the Night Angel more imposing and interesting than Sanderson's world.

All in all, a very good trilogy--and a debut at that. I look forward to more of Weeks' works, and I'm especially hoping that he will continue the Night Angel. There is a lot of potential for Weeks to extrapolate answers to questions and prophesies of the trilogy in a sequel.