Even though Night Angel Nemesis is over eight hundred pages, almost every page holds readers’ attention. DR: The original Night Angeltrilogy is mostly in third person, which is a very familiar style for a lot of fantasy readers.

But Nemesisis largely written in first person; it’s an account being relayed and there’s a very clear question of how reliable that account is at times. Weeks deftly moves the pieces around his chessboard, snapping them with assured feeling onto their new squares in preparation for a climactic confrontation.

And if you were able to go from reading third person limited past tense narration, which was what Night Angeltrilogy was in, and you hung on [for Night Angel Nemesis]…ifyou’re able to make that transition, the other transitions I have planned later are gonna be fine for you. The fact that this novel’s key events are set around a heist rather than assassin training or war means fewer bloody outbursts. Kylar jokes at times that he’s a “super assassin,” and in many ways this book reminded me more of a superhero story or thriller than a fantasy yarn. I finished Lightbringer, I’m 42 years old…these books take a long time, and I don’t have five massive series left in my writing career. If you had to send any three fictional assassins or characters from other stories after him, who would you send?

When squeezed they melted and covered the body of the holder like a second skin and gave them power over a specific element. I will be shoving Night Angel Nemesis into the palms of anyone who asks me for a dark and twisty recommendation.To protect a fragile peace, Logan's new kingdom, and the king's twin sons, he needs Kylar to secure a powerful magical artifact that was unearthed during the war. Night Angel Nemesisis a daring new take on Brent Weeks’ Night Angelworld, revealing a very different layer to the series. Packed with all of the rich characterization, political intrigue, frenetic action, and clever color-based magic a fantasy lover could ask for, it may even be the best of the lot. It’s not just to satisfy my whims, I think it’s necessary for the story and how the story is told that it be from this very strong point of view.

By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. There’s reasons why this story in particular needed to be told this way, and the next story, the next chapter, will be told differently I think for reasons that will become obvious as you reach the ending. SoI’ve had those characters in my mind, and I’ve wanted to come back for so long, and coming back was a real joy.This is absolutely one of those books you won't want to stop reading, and it keeps you on the edge of your seat until the last page. There was like…Jack Ryan’s friend who was the badass who just didn’t care…you know, anybody could shoot Kylar and then it would just be light’s out. I’ll absolutely be wondering about what happens next for Kylar and Vi, and have no doubt I’ll be continuing on in the original Night Angeltrilogy and the sequel to Nemesis when the time comes. He's determined not to kill again, but an impending amnesty will pardon the one murderer he can't let walk free. CAPSLOCK, where can I get one of thesesweet, sweet hardcovers, so that I might run my emotions through a Midcyru meat grinder?