• Perfect Shadow

  • A Night Angel Novella
  • By: Brent Weeks
  • Narrated by: James Langton
  • Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (1,876 ratings)

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Perfect Shadow

By: Brent Weeks
Narrated by: James Langton
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Publisher's summary

For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint.

Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He's also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he's worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often he's become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble.

But when Gaelan must take a job hunting down the world's finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena, what he finds may destroy everything he's ever believed in.

Listen to the Night Angel Trilogy.
©2011 Brent Weeks (P)2011 Hachette

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Good writer bad bad bad narrater

After listening to the series, I thought this would be a nice follow up. This would allow me to know how Durzo got started. I started listening to this book and the narrater's voice had such poor reflections that it was putting me to sleep. What a shame to have such a good writer waste a good book on someone that can't bring the characters to life. Not sure why he went away from Paul Boehmer but it is just a shame. Well it didn't cost much and I'll go buy the paperback book when it comes out. I will not attempt to listen to this again. That is how bad this narrater is.

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Good, but not great.

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This is a must-have for anyone who is enthusiastic about the Night Angel series. That being said, the narrator really distracts from a great plot. I really wish he had done his homework and listened to the previous books, names were mispronounced, weird accents were assigned ect. Just grit your teeth and try your best to enjoy the content and prey Weeks writes more Night Angel goodies with a new narrator on the payrole.

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Meh, ok I guess...

Terrible narration! Sub par story compared with Weeks's other work. Worth the three dollars though and with listening to if your a fan!

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Not my favorite narrator but not bad either

A must if you read the trilogy but this has spoilers so do not start here.

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nice to get some background on the hero

What made the experience of listening to Perfect Shadow the most enjoyable?

getting more of the history of this series.

What did you like best about this story?

short stories can tell a great story with out the clutter of too much detail and still satisfy

What three words best describe James Langton’s voice?

annoying english accent

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

from hero to assassin.

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Like the look into the legendary Warriors life

great backstory makes me wish it was a little more wasn't a fan of The narrator's Voice at the beginning but it grew on me

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Thanks for more insight into Durzo

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, but only after listening to the Night Angel Trilogy. It feels like a prologue and gives you insight into my favorite character of the trilogy.

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A great look at Durzo

I really enjoyed this short-story, but the music at the beginning and end covered up some of the speaking and was much louder than it should have been.

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It was Meh.

Overall it was OK. Performance was great. But the overall story - it was Meh. I am fine with violence, sex scenes, murder, monologues that go on for ever. What I am not ok with is how every character seems the same. I felt like the author put himself inside this book too often so that the main character seemed like he had multiple personalities which didn't seem part of the story. And I am fine with asshole characters buy when the main characters is an asshole throughout the series, I just can't dig it.

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Durzos story was great

So intersting to hear the dialogue between Durzo and the Kakari. Weeks does a great job delving into Durzos losses and how he wound up a wetboy. Loved this book.

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