Night Angel Nemesis: 1 (The Kylar Chronicles)

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That’s sort of how we got here, and that’s how I know a lot about how the world fits together, because…well, I cheated, I wrote that other book first! Which didn’t feel like cheating at the time. Throwing away five years of work was really hard. [Laughs] So then this gives us a chance to reflect on Kylar’s character growth and who Kylar is. Weeks has been showing other fantasy authors how it's done for over fifteen years."—Peter V. Brett, author of The Desert Prince While Night Angel Nemesisfunctions as an immediate sequel to Brent Weeks’ original Night Angeltrilogy, the author has said more than once that you canread this latest novel without having read his older works. Night Angelis one of those series I’ve had recommended to me many times over the years, and with Nemesis coming out it felt like time to finally take the plunge. I read both this new book and started in on the old series at the same time. Brent Weeks has a style of immediacy and detail that pulls the reader relentlessly into his story. He doesn't allow you to look away' Robin Hobb What's even worse is that a few times it felt like the author was unimaginative and couldn't think of smth interesting, and in those times the book just says "yeah, so, smth happened, but I'm not gonna repeat what had happened. It was interesting tho, trust me, bro"

You’re rereading the original Night Angel Trilogy while you wait for NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS, scheduled to be released on April 25, and you’re just so freakin’ excited to return to Midcyru with Kylar and revisit some friends and foes, both old and new… But some jobs are too hard for an easy conscience, and some enemies are so powerful the only answer lies in the shadows.There is a scene from the novella, Perfect Shadow, that Weeks takes almost word for word and puts in this story with slightly different circumstances. It was weird for me because I had just finished reading that story not long ago, and I had that weird deja-vu feeling until I realized I actually had read this situation before.

I don't understand why Vitruvius makes it his life goal to stop Kylar. It seemed fine at first because he was just offended that Kylar tried to steal from him. That is kind of dumb, but not egregiously so. But then he is scouring the ball hunting him, and eventually fighting him on the roof of the castle. But then he doesn't actually fight him all that hard. And I was wondering what his stake in any of this is. Why is he even fighting Kylar at that point? Why is Kylar so stupid that Vitruvius has to explain to him that his Ka'kari can be made into a wingsuit. The guy has literally seen Kylar's abilities for like 5 minutes, and he is already more knowledgeable than Kylar. This book employs a story-within-a-story format in which neither POV is omniscient. And while there is overlap, both narrators know things the other doesn't. This creates an interesting tension to the story that is compounded by the fact that we're reading POVs of two characters who have to survive to a certain point (at least long enough to write the in-story story). All of this played with my assumptions and perceptions as I read. It was also a heist story, except not nearly as cheery as Ocean's 11. In true Weeks fashion, while I felt certain plot points coming, I was not ready for the ending. Last question! You seem to enjoy putting Kylar through the ringer, so let’s end by fielding one Kylar’s way. If you had to send any three fictional assassins or characters from other stories after him, who would you send?Weeks has truly cemented his place among the great epic fantasy writers of our time ' British Fantasy Society

Kylar is talking to the queen. Oops, he admits that there is a Chantry team on the boat. Oops, he admits there is a second Chantry team on the boat. Long gone are the days of smart and competent Kylar. I have wanted a sequel to The Night Angel series for sooooo long, it was one of the first fantasy series I read that majorly got me into reading and it will always hold a special place in my heart. This series made me fall in love with actual grimdark characters, cool magic systems and dark/gritty fantasy worlds. In fact the talent remains one of my top 3 magic systems - out of all the fantasy books I have ever read....and I have read.... a lot of fantasy. 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.If the singularity formed by assholes just wasn't enough, the other characters really aren't really the beacon of enjoyment either. There's also a lot of telling and not a lot of showing. Again, "I am the best, blah blah blah", but Kylar acts very dumb, doesn't think his plans through and keeps getting into stupid situations. This series is a terrible contradiction to the last series. In the previous series Kylar was all about honor and doing the right thing (i.e. sacrificing himself for Logan) and in this book all he does he sulk, insult and torture people. I do not believe for a second the Ka’kari would have chosen this Kylar. All the previous character’s personalities are different. The dialogue is cringey—there’s a ton of awkward heart-to-heart. Kylar should have been this awesome historical world-renowned character but instead he is an angsty teenager. It’s your bookworm friend’s/parent’s/coworker’s/cousin’s/ roommate’s/sibling’s/spouse’s/neighbor’s/partner’s birthday Having re-read the Night Angel trilogy in anticipation of this release, the contrast was a bit disappointing. To start, It took me a long time to get into the book because I didn’t like the framing device. When I finally started to get used to it, I realized that I was unimpressed by the writing.

Kylar is soooooooooooooo dumb in this book. He keeps saying "[My master] taught me.... but ofc I am not following it", and "[My master] said to NEVER.... Yeah, guess what I am about to do right now?".

First off, the writing style feels very different from the original. It feels more like a Lightbringer book than a Night Angel one, and while I enjoyed Lightbringer for the most part, it just feels off here. There's far more philosophizing here, and it gets quite repetitive in parts. If those parts were shortened or cut out completely, it would have made for a shorter, tighter story. The reasons for the 4.5 stars instead of the full 5 stars mark is that the plot, so full of intrigues, twists, plots, and whatever sometimes leaves some things not so well explained, or so it seemed to me. I get that there was a lot happening (and saying "a lot" is reductive), and I know that Kylar wasn't really at his best (and sure, we get also that he is quite a young horny man, maybe we could have done without so many reminders, but it wasn't bad, really) but from time to time I felt like there were things that he should have questioned and he didn't and that felt a bit off.