The Way of Shadows (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

The Night Angel Trilogy, Book 1, Part 1

De: Brent Weeks

Narrado por: full cast, Dylan Lynch, David Coyne, Eric Messner, Ren Casey, Thomas Penny, Tim Getman, Terence Aselford, Michael Glenn, Joe Brack, Christopher Graybill, Elizabeth Jernigan

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.

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

©2008 Brent Weeks (P)2010 Graphic Audio, LLC

Audio mixing

there were times when due to the audio mixing the background music was louder than the current storyteller. this made it hard to keep track of what was going on and to hear the storyteller you have to turn the volume up to uncomfortable levels.

The depth of emotion

I loved how the emotions were explained and displayed. It brought more engagement to the story.

Great narration had one distraction

Great job narrating but the background music and noise of fights and town noise was too much. At times could not hear the narration.

Read, now listening. Not done, but loving this!

I own the actual books and read this one already, but then I saw on here (dramatized) and didn't understand what that really was because I never had a book like that, so I I got it and it's like a movie in my ears. I love it and will be listening to all of it and also download part 2 of book one. My only downside to this is that part one and part two should be sold together since it's really one book in physical form. So you either need to use 2 credits to finish one book, or pay twice for one book. Its like paying twice for one movie. Besides that, the cast is great, the pace is pretty good, and sometimes it's great to slow down the speed that they talk. I slow down the stone of the bad guys of the guild in the beginning to make him seem more demonic.

I am a fan of Brent Weeks work and wish I could meet or chat with him to learn. I'm a writer alwo and post my stories (elsewhere from here) and would like to know how to expand and make my work better. How he tell stories and the environments, I think he could help me improve with.

Fan of the series disappointing production

I am a huge fan of the books. but the ability to suspend disbelief was really hard with odd pronunciations, heavy breathing, and volume being too loud or nonsensical on the effects while the narrator or characters are speaking

great

great lovrd it. Such a good job, such a good book, I have no complaints, you should get it.

4.5/5

Its not pervy as the other review suggests.
It offers light descriptions at times of scenes when a courtesan needs such descriptions, but it is by no means smut.
The beginning of the book took me a little effort to get into, but like an anime it takes a couple chapters to get into; I will be picking up the second book as I write this.
Characters are archetypes of your run of the mill fantasy characters, with the usual twists to make them a little more interesting.
Voice acting was pretty good, sounds were mildly unbalanced at times, but overall good. Perhaps I have my phone equalizing the audio, but I doubt it; there were few times I had to relisten to a part where I thought I missed something, but only to realize I didn't really miss anything.

3rd time with this story

Great voice acting and narrator, my only complaint is some times to background noise drowns out the narrator.
this includes some music, voices of characters, and sound effects.

Yes, please

I didn't have issues with effects over spoken dialog as I've read in other reviews of these types. The sample of this first book has the worst of it when you start hearing sword clanking. I listen loudly so maybe that helps, but I could hear every word.

Anyway, I'm getting all of these. This trilogy is what got me into reading fantasy and with the multicast and sound effects, it just puts you in the damn room, I love it.

My first but surely not my last GraphicAudio!

One of the most detailed ethic and disease I have listen to and and dissipation listening to the second book tonight. If he hasn’t tried graphic audio you’re in for a real treat!