Brent Weeks is the master of the twist you don't see coming, and he usually does it more than once in a book. This is a prequel focusing on Durzo Blint, but it's definitely important to read first. It would have been disorienting to read first, and it'll spoil some of those twists I loved in the Night Angel trilogy. The switches between point-of-view was a bit disconcerting at the beginning, but once I figured out what was going on, I settled nicely into the story. I also wish

The Graphic Audiobook version was a blast to listen to.

Well crap...I guess I just spoiled the trilogy for myself by reading this first. I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking. With that said, I still want to read the trilogy and want to even more so after this little nugget. I was just getting into this world and it ended...of course now I know that it wasn't meant to be my beginning, so shame on me for not looking into that before reading it. On to book one!

I don't know why I keep on reading books that I don't like

This still gives me goosebumps."I got a bit of prophecy," the old assassin said. "Not enough to be useful, you know. Just glimpses. My wife dead, things like that to keep me up late at night. I had this vision that I was going to be killed by forty men, all at once. But now that you're here, I see they're all you. Durzo Blint."

I didn't like The Black Prism so I gave Weeks and this novella a shot but sadly no more.

I read the Night Angel Trilogy about two to three years ago and loved it then. This book is centered around Durzo Blint...one of my favorites from the trilogy(the other one was Logan.)This just gives insight to Durzo, before he was Durzo Blint, before he met Momma K(Gwinvere) and how he became a wetboy. Reading this seriously makes me miss Azoth/Kylar and all the other characters. I may just do a re-read of the series soon. There is no heroismThere is no justiceThere is no heavenThere is no si...

I loved the Night Angel trilogy, but this short story...not so much 🙁

This is a Durzo Blint origin story. Add a fantastic GraphicAudio production with 15 voice actors and fist pumping music and sound effects and you have two hours of pure assassin badassery as The Night Angel stalks the warrens.Most of the story focuses on Gaelen Starfire just before he becomes Durzo. We see the rise of Mama K and how Durzo came to meet and work for Gwinvere Kirena and the Sakage. We also get a little back story on Acaelus Thorne and how he became The Night Angel.You'll probably n...

Perfect Shadow is the prequel novella to the Night Angel Trilogy and is one for the die hard fans only. Comprising exclusively of the rise of Durzo Blint, the most prominent and proficient assassin known to man, the premise was solid, though the delivery somewhat lacking. What could've been a fans delight turned sour from the onset with the novella essentially consisting of part story telling, part high fantasy, part erotica all mixed into part of a plot that never felt whole (the floating timel...

A glimpse of Durzo Blint's back story. In short, highly entertaining but do read this only after finishing at least Shadow's Edge, ideally post Beyond The Shadows. I'll just leave this review with a Durzo gem below. I let him finish his business. Never say I’m not a gentleman.I was once the avatar of retribution. Now I just try to be polite.A moment later, the baron disappeared down the privy without a trace. When his soldiers grew suspicious and checked, he was simply gone. You’ll forgive me if...

Brent Weeks' immensely popular Night Angel Trilogy was published in quick succession. Readers had all three of his debut books on hand, devoured them, and then had to wait for his next novel. While imperfect, it was easy to see Weeks' potential for spinning a good yarn. THE BLACK PRISM has been released since then, but Weeks did take a little time to go back to the world he started out with, and gives us a novella about the assassin Durzo Blint.Durzo is a character with a lot of back story, but

Nothing beats snacking on delicious Blintses.

As always this review can also be found on my blog The Tattooed Book Geek: https://thetattooedbookgeek.wordpress...I received a free copy of this book courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review.I’ve never read a book by Brent Weeks before! I know, I know, I fully expect some haughty derision from all you fantasy fans out there! He’s an author I’ve heard many good things about but have never managed to get around to reading until now.Perfect Shadow also includes the short story: I...

Assassins going to assassinate people all assassin-like. Add crazy awesome magical abilities, immortality, love, shadows, betrayals, and constant action. You may just have Perfect Shadow: A Night Angel Novella. I don't think I'd recommend diving into Perfect Shadow without having already read the rest of the Night Angel Trilogy, or at least the first book, The Way of Shadows. It's a great series especially if you want a book/series that's really hard to put down. With all its faults, it's so muc...

Weeks continues with his juvenile drivel.It looks like he discovered the word feces and had to look up all it's synonyms and write a scene that beat such "adult" subjects to death. Not realizing that he could have put it to good use by naming his book "Fecal Matter".Next Weeks enters 12 year old pervert mode and introduces one of his female dichotomies, namely all women are either virgins or whores, as the main charter meets a whore who of course wants to have sex with him for free. Juvenile dia...

Nice little return to the world of Night Angel. I will say that though it's a prequel to the main series, one should avoid reading it first. It goes into background information that would spoil key parts to the books.That said, it would also be confusing to a Weeks novice. The terms, history, relics, and organizations in the story are not explained here, as they are so well in the series. In fact, it has been awhile since I read the books, so I felt a little lost with some of it. Most of it came...

That was an audio book from graphic audio it was so great, spectacular, really thanks to my kind and nice friend Mr Aren for giving me a gift copy of this book... Really appreciate it... Definitely I'm gonna continue the series

Would definitely recommend waiting until after book 3 to read this since it contains side plot spoiler and reveal from book 3 and a large spoiler from book 1 as well as many other references that you pick up on if you've finished Beyond the Shadows! :)This novella is quite enjoyable and gave me plenty of aha moments when it referenced events I'd already read about in the main series! I also love what Weeks chose to cover in this novella!

This was well read, but not well suited to reading since it skips back & forth through time a lot. The narrator made no indication of such breaks (They never do for some unknown reason.) so I got a bit lost at times.This seems to be the introduction & history of the main character of the series. Considering that it was basically a big info dump, it was quite interesting & very well done. Still, it was an info dump, a character sketch. A very interesting character & an interesting magical system....