The Way of Shadows
by:
Paul Boehmer (author)
Brent Weeks (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: MP3 CD
ISBN:
9781400162864 (1400162866)
Publish date: August 24th 2009
Publisher: Tantor Media
Pages no: 20
Edition language: English
Series: Night Angel (#1)
I'm being generous in giving this a three star rating, mainly because the beginning of the story was actually rather good. Unfortunately, that doesn't last long. This story plays on every Fantasy trope out there. It spends too much time on graphic death scenes, and not nearly enough time on actual w...
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 ...
Wygrałem w pewnym konkursie podobno niezłą książkę. Problem w tym, że był to trzeci tom trylogii. Aby więc rozpocząć lekturę "po bożemu" zaopatrzyłem się w dwie pierwsze części i rozpoczałem lekturę, czekając aż moje ostatnie zamówienie w księgarni zostanie zrealizowane. I muszę się wam przyznać, że...
Blint: I AM THE BEST! Azoth: He is the best... After a long painful pause from reading, I have managed to finish this book yesterday. I liked and disliked it at the same time. I found it at the same time surprising and disappointing, exciting and mundane, elaborate and boring, twisted and appealing...
The Way of the Shadows is the first book of The Night Angel Triology and tells the story of a street urchin who manages to weasel himself into an apprenticeship with the city's most famous magical assassin (called a wetboy), which are different from regular assassins. I'm making this distinction bec...
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