Night Angel Nemesis

De: Brent Weeks

Narrado por: Simon Vance

The incredible return to the New York Times bestselling world of the Night Angel, where master assassin Kylar Stern embarks on a new adventure as the High King Logan Gyre calls on him to save his kingdom and the hope of peace.

"Weeks has been showing other fantasy authors how it's done for over fifteen years." — Peter V. Brett, author of The Desert Prince

"Weeks is a giant of the genre." — Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld

After the war that cost him so much, Kylar Stern is broken and alone. He's determined not to kill again, but an impending amnesty will pardon the one murderer he can't let walk free. He promises himself this is the last time. One last hit to tie up the loose ends of his old, lost life.

But Kylar's best — and maybe only — friend, the High King Logan Gyre, needs him. 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.

With rumors that a ka'kari may be found, adversaries both old and new are on the hunt. And if Kylar has learned anything, it’s that ancient magics are better left in the hands of those he can trust.

If he 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.

"Weeks writes in an inescapably engaging style. Breathlessly high stakes, terrible missteps, and unexpected revelations keep the story humming along at a breakneck pace." — Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

For more from Brent Weeks, check out:

The Ka'kari Codex

The Night Angel Trilogy
The Way of Shadows
Shadow's Edge
Beyond the Shadows

The Kylar Chronicles
Night Angel Nemesis

The Night Angel Trilogy: 10th Anniversary EditionNight Angel: The Complete Trilogy (omnibus) 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

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Brent Weeks has a style and immediacy of detail that pulls the reader relentlessly into his story. He doesn't allow you to look away."—Robin Hobb on The Black Prism

"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."—B&N Reads: Best of the Year on The Burning White

"Nobody does breakneck pacing and amazingly executed plot twists like Brent Weeks."—Brian McClellan, author of Promise of Blood on The Black Prism

"Brent Weeks is so good it's starting to tick me off."—Peter V. Brett, New York Times bestselling author of The Desert Spear on The Night Angel Trilogy

"Weeks manages to ring new tunes on...old bells, letting a deep background slowly reveal its secrets and presenting his characters in a realistically flawed and human way."—Publishers Weekly on The Black Prism

Disappointed

With The Light Bringer Saga being my favorite fantasy series, and loving the original Night Angel trilogy, I was excited to finally get back into the world of Midkiryu (sp?). However this book was a complete let down. Kylar is now a bumbling idiot stumbling from one disastrous situation to the next with no plan, no pride, and no clue. He seems to have forgotten all his training as a wet boy over night. The book hits 5/5 cringe factor when Kylar gets bested by... a fish. The new narrative 4th Wall breaking sections are a complete fail, being annoying at best and insulting and distracting at worst.

The only small saving graces are Logan, Phaena, and Vi, whose characters more closely adhere to the original series style, but they only rarely put in an appearance.

Simon Vance is amazing as always. I keep forgetting I'm listening to the same narrator as all the characters have distinctive and fitting voices.

Overall, I'll probably get the next book in the series when it comes out, but it will only be when I have an extra credit or two and nothing better to listen to.

A lot of people clearly don't understand this book

Reading the other reviews, I feel like I have to defend this book, as I've been closely following every single book Weeks has done since shortly after the original Night Angel Trilogy released. I've watched as many interviews as I can, read AMAs on reddit and elsewhere, and been keeping my finger to the pulse of Week's work for well over a decade now. This book is an absolutely fantastic adaptation of the characters, and after reading it, I'm seriously blown away by what Weeks did with it. There's a ton of extremely subtle stuff in it that I think went RIGHT over many readers' heads.

(side note, Simon Vance is an excellent pick for these books. so glad he was picked up for this book and the original trilogy)

***POTENTIALLY MINOR SPOILERS BUT NO SPECIFICS***

Of the reviews I've read, one of the most common complaints I've seen is Kylar being "nerfed" so to speak. Without getting into too many details, it seems like what people missed between Night Angel 3 and this book is that while we had a 3rd person omniscient dialogue going in the original trilogy, what we now have is Kylar's actual inner thoughts and reflections. His personal view of himself, the world, and his experiences.

This is an EXTREMELY crucial bit of information to consider while reading this story, specifically when put into the context of the ending of the original trilogy, and therefore the developments in this book.

What about his origin and upbringing lends the reader to believe he is emotionally stable or intelligent and able to understand his own strengths or weaknesses? Yes, WE know how good he is, but after what happened at the end of book 3, is it really that surprising that a boy with his background struggles to cope with the insane trauma he's been through?

All I'll say to those that have read the book: Ever notice how often he mentions how stupid his ideas are as well as how lucky he is, while simultaneously doing multiple things worthy of his legend that he simply brushes under the rug? Why do you think that is?

Anyways, I highly recommend people read the book/read it again with this lens. It will make a LOT of things make sense.

Sadly Disappointed

I really like Brent Weeks as a writer. Night Angel trilogy and The Lightbringer series are some of my all time favorites. This book resembled none of his previous work. Kilar comes across weak, insecure and pathetic for pretty much the whole book. The story goes pointlessly on and on. He did manage to introduce a whopping total of one new interesting character.

I’ll still be listening and or reading Brent Weeks next books, but this one falls short in pretty much every way.

A departure from the original

Reality is, this is a very different type of book than the first three. I loved the first three, characters, dynamics, twists, world building etc. This book reminded me a lot more of Harry Potter 5 when Harry spent the whole book moping around hormonal and sad. It's still a good story for some but nothing like what I was expecting/eagerly anticipating for the last 6 months.

The whole dynamic of the story changed.

I just stopped listening to it. Why would you choose a different character dynamic and a different audio voice? I tried multiple times but just couldn't do it.