The Way of Shadows (Dramatized Adaptation)

The Night Angel Trilogy, Book 1

By: Brent Weeks

Narrated by: full cast

Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

From New York Times best-selling author Brent Weeks comes the first novel in his breakout fantasy trilogy in which a young boy trains under the city's most legendary and feared assassin, Durzo Blint.

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art - and he is the city's most accomplished artist.

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.

Narrated by: Andy Clemence, Casie Platt, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, David Coyne, Dylan Lynch, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, James Konicek, James Lewis, Joe Brack, Johann Dettweiler, Ken Jackson, Michael Glenn, Ren Casey, Richard Rohan, Sunny Lasskey, Terence Aselford, Thomas Penny, Tim Getman

Please note: This 2008 recording represents the technology of the time when it was produced. This is currently the best available source audio from the publisher.

©2008 Brent Weeks (P)2021 Graphic Audio LLC

Turn down the background effects!

Some of the story was lost as the narrator and charcters voices were drown out by the loud background sound effects. Also, no prologue. Whats up with that?

Great acting

But the noise was so loud. Hard to always hear what was happening. But great story.

battle sounds in the background

the background audio is too loud. During fights and battles you can not hear the narrative because the background noise drowns out everything

Amazing

This was an amazing story and the voice acting and audio that went with it made the experience even better

Too much

Turn down the sound effects. Story is drown out by overly dramatized background sounds that do little to add to story.

Love this series

this is one of my favorite books of all time love it so much

background noise

the book is great. one down side is they have the background noise way to load. some parts you miss out on because the noise in the back is crazy load.

This is da wae

Not bad for my first dramatic adaption, there are some voices like Dorian's that I love (even though I hate his character). After getting acquainted with the voices, it's easier to follow who says what. The one thing that I DESPISED was that there were 8 mins+ of ads in between Parts 1 and 2. I will be sure to never read any other series by whoever. Decent read worth the purchase

Excellent ensemble story driven cast

I've been looking forward to listening to this author for several years, glad this was my first exposure to him.

There's just no 'great' version

The regular narrated version is pretty dull, dry, and painful to try to slog through. The dramatized version has great narration, but the background gets pretty ridiculous at times. The roaring and wailing and grunting and repetitive flute (and other) music is just WAY too over the top.

"He ran like a silent shadow over the rooftops (huh-huh-GASP-GASP-HUH-HUH_Grrrr-HUH!) leaping effortlessly over gaps between buildings (GRRRRRR-HUUUUUUHHHHH OOOF! Gasp-gasp-gasp)..."

It's a shame, because it's a pretty awesome story line... If they just kept the narrators from the dramatized version, and dropped the background grunting, crazy screaming, insane shrieking, and "wailing/chanting music", it'd probably be pretty decent over all. Then again, as old as this series is, I doubt we'll ever get a decent Audio version of it, so I guess ya just have to kinda pick the best version for you.