Night Angel Nemesis
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4.4 • 101 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A LEGENDARY ASSASSIN.
AN IMPOSSIBLE HEIST.
THE WAY OF SHADOWS CALLS ONCE MORE.
'One of the best examples of modern fantasy that I've read' Fantasy Faction
New York Times bestselling author Brent Weeks delivers a modern masterpiece of epic fantasy.
After the war that cost him so much, Kylar Stern is broken and alone. He' s determined not to kill again. But Kylar's best - and maybe only - friend, High King Logan Gyre, needs him. To protect a fragile peace, Logan's new kingdom and his twin sons, he needs Kylar to secure a powerful magical artefact that was unearthed during the war.
Adversaries both old and new are on the hunt for this relic, but if Kylar does the job right, he won't need to kill at all. This isn't an assassination - it's a heist. But some jobs are too hard for an easy conscience, and some enemies are so powerful the only answer lies in the shadows.
Praise for Brent Weeks:
'Weeks has truly cemented his place among the great epic fantasy writers of our time' British Fantasy Society
'Brent Weeks has a style and immediacy of detail that pulls the reader relentlessly into his story' Robin Hobb
'Weeks is a giant of the genre' Nicholas Eames
'Breathlessly high stakes, terrible missteps and unexpected revelations keep the story humming along at a breakneck pace' Andrea Stewart
For more from Brent Weeks, check out:
Night Angel
The Way of Shadows
Shadow's Edge
Beyond the Shadows
The Kylar Chronicles
Night Angel Nemesis
Perfect Shadow: A Night Angel Novella
The Way of Shadows: The Graphic Novel
Lightbringer
The Black Prism
The Blinding Knife
The Broken Eye
The Blood Mirror
The Burning White
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Weeks cleverly continues the fantasy saga begun in his Night Angel trilogy with the exciting launch of the Kylar Chronicles spin-off series. Assassin Kylar Stern's magic powers include a kind of immortality; he's automatically restored to life when killed, but someone he loves then dies in his stead. He's introduced while breaking into a heavily guarded estate to kill twisted artist Trudana Jadwin, the woman who murdered Stern's foster sister, Magdalyn, and turned her corpse "into a perfectly lifelike statue made of undecaying flesh." Following the end of the war that dominated the previous series, Jadwin is slated to benefit from a general royal amnesty declared by High King Logan Gyre, and Stern's resolved to forestall that unjust outcome. This effort proves to be only the prologue to a more complex mission: the rescue of the monarch's infant twins, possibly with the help of a magical artifact that Stern must locate first. Weeks keeps the plot moving, despite the book's length, and makes it easy for newcomers to get engaged in this world. Fantasy fans who like roguish antiheroes will want to check this out.
Customer Reviews
Night Angel Nemesis
No happily ever afters, an antihero as fallible as any real person and a story that gets to the point with every single sentence, paragraph or chapter. Nothing in this series is superfluous or gratuitous. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
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