Showing posts with label Brent Weeks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brent Weeks. Show all posts

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Night Angel Trilogy



The "Night Angel Trilogy" is the debut series for Brent Weeks, it is a fairly traditional fantasy story bent toward action.

 The central character is Kylar, yet another young street beggar-- scraping by to pay his guild dues.  Kylar encounters Durzo, a famous assassin in his city, and eventually becomes his apprentice.  Soon enough Kylar goes forth to slay countless foes.


+It doesn't hold back, no PG rating here.  Kylar is an assassin and he doesn't magically avoid killing the innocent.
+Action is well done, and plenty of it

-Writing isn't of the highest caliber, if Weeks could improve his prose some he would be one hell of an author.
-The ending for the series didn't work for me, too much voodoo and magical nonsense.
-Some of the secondary characters would go through some pretty dull character arcs(Logan in book 1 and book 3).


8.8/10