Night Angel Trilogy- Brent Weeks

I have to say that I really enjoyed this series!

    Normally when I start reading a book series it has nothing to do with word of mouth. Sometimes I'll watch a movie or Series that started from a book, most times it's the Author but I have found in the past few years that it's the draw I feel to the book. People can repeatedly say " You should read this!" More often than not it turns me off of the book. So in turn I spend a lot of time on the Chapter's Indigo website or Kobo when I'm looking to buy or download a new book. I'll be looking for one thing and I'll find that my eyes will pass over a cover or I'll read a synopsis more than once before I even think about buying it.

   The Night Angel Trilogy was one of those that I passed by for months as I hunted for new books to escape in. I ordered them and had started reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown but once I got them I put down Red Rising started reading them right away.

The trilogy was on sale for $21.67 CDN and there was no way I could pass that up.

  Way of the Shadows is book #1 of the Night Angel Trilogy. It follows Azoth/Kylar Stern on his journey out of the Warrens (the bad part of town) as a Guild Rat (Thief) to bigger and better things as a Wetboy (Assassin of sorts) according to his Master though "Assassins have Targets, Wetboys have Deaders because Assassins can miss sometimes."

   He starts off at 11 years old trying to survive long enough in his Guild to earn enough money to get himself out. The kid that runs the Guild "Rat" is brutal and violent with thoughts of rising in the ranks. He does so using fear as most want to be overlords do. The Warrens though are run by the Sa' Kage a secret order of  9 that runs various organizations in the city and one of those 9 is Durzo Blint the man that will save that boy from his life in the mud.

   This book gripped me from the beginning and as the world they live in became larger than the Warrens I could barely put it down but you know I had to sleep sometime! I found myself trying really hard to imagine what the characters looked like according to the details given and yes I know we all do that but considering the amount of the illusions and disguises that are going on within the story I don't think that their true forms can really come through and it doesn't even matter. the story was more than enough to keep my interest and as I move through the books I know that I'll attempt to read slower so the story doesn't end but at the same time it's fluid and I just want to keep reading. That's exactly what I did. I went through all three books and have just now finished, so talking about the books as a whole is what I'll have to do because I can't think of how to explain it separately now that I've come to the end. Is it the end?

    I have looked on his website to see if there will be another book and everything leads to no but he says there is a possibility that he will return to the series and I hope so because there looks like there is so much more story to tell! It can't be over there are loose ends...SO MANY! The kinds that leave you thinking about where it could go or for me where I want it to for days...

    This series was a fully engulfed read for me. Like how I felt about the Demon Cycle Series by Peter V Brett the story had me fully and completely by the 3rd chapter. Azoth/Kylar's story was sad and yet full of love from so many different angles that I don't understand how he missed it sometimes but when your and orphan I guess it's hard to recognize.

    In the world of Midcyru so much has happened and so much changed and as tacky as it sounds Love is the big message I took from the series. Despite the blood and death and hatred, love really does make their world go round. So many characters within the story have there own battles to face, Durzo Blint, Doll Girl, Momma K, Logan...the list goes on but at the heart of it all it's Love.

    That's the biggest endorsement that I can give the series aside from outwardly cheering or gasping while I'm reading or in a few cases with the last book I had goosebumps of anticipation going on and almost refused to put the book down but you know...I had to get to work.

I'm a BIG series reader, I love to fall in love with characters and connect with them. I'm hoping as this goes along that I can take that journey with many of you and as always here. Talk Books!

Any question or comments are always welcome and recommendations for a good read as the site gets further underway.

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