4.5 stars. This is certainly on my top ten list of Fantasy books/series to come out of the last ten years. Great characters, excellent world-building and the magical/fantasy elements (e.g., powers, creatures, artifacts and magic systems) are as good as it gets.

My ocular muscles are sore from all the eyerolling I did when I read Shadow's Edge. It is even more obsessed with virginity/chastity than an average American Sex Ed class. Because all women are either virgins or whores, right? *sigh* The terrible, atrocious portrayal of female characters annoyed me even more than in the first book. I cringed very time a female character took stage. They all lack any depth whatsoever, becoming little more than caricatures. The virgin/whore dichotomy rules thi...

Quite honestly, this falls at two stars on my enjoyment scale. While Weeks is talented at developing the video game fantasy, a genre I am now officially defining for public benefit, it lacks most of what I love in a good read. Shadow's Edge is an improvement over The Way of Shadows, but ultimately the shortcomings of the storytelling cripple the book. A hallmark of the video game fantasy is a telegraphed narrative with cursory character development. Weeks jumps from person to person, almost neve...

What can I say about this book? How about a list of reason why you might love it.If you think the power of love overcomes all, and that belongs in a story about an Assassin, you know a guy that kills people for money. Then this book is for you. If you think all women fall into one of two categories. Those being virgins or whores. Then you found your book right here. If you like reading books that feel like the story to an 80's video game, you know a plot just thrown in there so you can watch som...

“Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come.”Kylar Stern is the Night Angel. Immortal but not invincible. The black kakari that has bonded to him grants Kyler god-like powers. Powers to be used in the cause of Justice, Vengeance and Mercy.But Kylar's done with that life. He wants to live his life in peace with Elene and Durzo's daughter Uly. But some destinies are too large to be contained by a domestic life. And Kylar's former life is not content to let him be. The God King Ursu...

I absolutely loved the first book in this series, which was bloody, gruesome, grim, in parts funny, entertaining, fast paced and had great characters.It all changes a bit with the second one - I miss one of my favorite characters, and I hate the romance part that is introduced. A) I hate romance in my fantasy at all times, and B) I especially hated the female part of the relationship. To me she felt like she was always whining and complaining, and just not a good female character at all. That re...

I think a lot of people who are complaining about the role of women in this book completely missed something important; it adds to the development of the world. It is a medieval fantasy and the women in this time period are relegated to nothingness however they play a huge role in this book itself. Elene and Vi are FOILS; they are meant to be eachother's anti-thesis in every way. Vi was abused sexually, physically, and mentally in every way conceivable while Elene grew up in a relatively happy a...

So I’m in one of those scenarios where “I’m committed now”. It’s just got a little predictable. The writing is good and so is the characters but for me it’s just missing something. I’ll read #3 just to finish it off, and let’s be honest what else is there to do at the moment 😂😂😂

DNF@39%Brent, did it cross your mind that some women might read your book? And that they might be repulsed by your female characters being either the Second Coming of the Virgin Mary or the personification of the Whore of Babylon? And have you considered that most fantasy readers, regardless of their sexual identity, don't usually pick up books about badass assassins because they actually want to read about sorry teenagers lamenting their virginity, lusting over each other and doing nothing abou...

Its so sad when the first book in a series is better than the second one, it makes it harder fir readers to continue the series, but since I'm already invested in the series I'll read the third and final book in this series. “I was ashamed,” Logan said. “Let me tell you what I learned in the Hole. I learned that in suffering, we find the true measure of our strength. I learned that a man can be a coward one day and a hero the next. I learned that I’m not as good a man as I thought I was. But

Some time has passed, and I’m trying to think of something positive to say about this book. And it turns out to be a real struggle.Most of it is about Kylar constantly complaining that he’s a virgin, Logan constantly complaining that he’s a virgin, Elene being dreadfully annoying and Kylar and Elene trying to avoid the topic of sex around little Uly. It’s like the book is a pendulum switching constantly between annoying and awkward.The storyline is just a sidetrack. A break between the actually

Nope.Just no.What the hell Brent? This is more like some teenage sexual angst sketch than an epic fantasy. I can see some sexual innuendos, some earthy and frank sexuality; hell I read Lolita and dozens of Robert Silverberg books so a prude I’m not, but neither am I a sophomore pornographer and I walked past this line of fiction in middle school.And 700 pages? I might have stayed with you for another 100 or so pages, but I was not going to wade through this muck for the next week at least.I did

3/5 starsWarning: Possibly the laziest review in all of humanity follows.Beginning (AKA the Kylar-Elene-'sex'-soap opera): The ENTIRE 200 pages were about as thrilling and sexy as:(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]- Basically, a total snoozefest.Middle (AKA shit starts to get real): - Kylar actually starts acting like the man I knew and loved from book #1. - Vi becomes infinitely more interesting. - Awesome deaths occur.The end (AKA the shit is here): >- The ending is pretty much the holy...

Not too sure how to rate this book and decided to stick to 3-stars for a more neutral standpoint. There were some awesome scenes, some not-so-awesome, and some meandering which I'm not sure went anywhere. The character that made the first book better was not present and boy, do I feel the absence. Kylar is a decent enough character although the first one-third of the book was annoying - all thanks to Elene who was truly beginning to irritate me. Kylar's arc only got interesting after he discover...

4.5 Stars!! “Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice has come.” WOW!!! I really enjoyed The Way of Shadows... but I LOVED this installment! This one, like the first was brutal, and deliciously dark. There is a ton of character growth and the plot only continues to thicken. Some of my favorite characters go through some horrible things and it made me extremely emotional. The humor was such an added bonus and just freaking fantastic!! It's literally what kept me engaged when things

Brent Weeks first Way of Shadows book was interesting (See my review of it) although nonsensical and pointless and I had little hopes of the next one in the series being any better. The only reason I read it was because there were some characters that I liked and was interested to see what happened too them. Well I got 80 pages into this one and decided to stop reading it because;A. As the last one it made no sense and was pointlessB. The writing felt cheesy and stupidC. (And most importantly) t...

Wow, does Brent Weeks pack a punch or what? For most of this book, I thought I would be giving it four stars, simply because I had enjoyed The Way of Shadows more. I loved the early years of Kylar's life and his training to be a wetboy. My favorite character had been Durzo Blint, his mentor, master, and father figure during this training. This was more epic a story, focusing not only on Kylar as he tries to learn the simple life of an herbalist, but on the primary players in a power struggle bet...

Brent Weeks packs lots of content into ''Shadow’s Edge'' and as with the first novel in the series there are lots of different story strands which tie together nicely, although a few are left open for the final book.This is a great book and I found it to be well written, with some strong characters and I look forward to reading the final novel in the series soon.

This book was just as wonderful as I had hoped it would be and even though this took me a lot longer to get through (due to life taking over and getting crazy) I always found it really easy to slip back into the world and see the characters again.This book is book 2 of the Night Angel Trilogy and we pick the story up not too long after the ending of book 1 and we're continuing to follow Kyler. I have various reasons why I really enjoy this series and one of those is because the characters of the...

Woah! This book was such an amazing ride, and nothing short of a constant heart attack."The red and black traitor's arrow leapt across that narrowest of chasms: the distance between a wetboy and her deader. It cut a red path through the air as if the night itself were bleeding"Although I missed Durzo for most of the book (the last page of the book had me screaming) I must admit that I now like and Kylar as well. As Vi says, sometimes he has such innocence about him to the point of being endearin...