Perfect Shadow, Brent Weeks
Perfect Shadow, Brent Weeks
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Perfect Shadow
A Night Angel Novella

Author: Brent Weeks

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 2 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 06/01/2011


Synopsis

For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. 

Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He's also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he's worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often he's become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble.
But when Gaelan must take a job hunting down the world's finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena, what he finds may destroy everything he's ever believed in.
 

About Brent Weeks

American author, Brent Weeks, had a very normal American upbringing upon being born in Whitefish, Montana in 1977. He developed a love for literature, which we all know can carry its readers to faraway places, escaping the reality of everyday living. He had a great fondness for Edgar Allen Poe, so his genre of writing was fantasy and mystery.

Weeks first novel, The Girl, was a complete failure, but as he says in his biography, skipping the boring parts, he has written eight best-selling novels. They include The Night Angel Trilogy and the Lightbringer Series for which he won several literary awards, and sold millions of copies. He also had a NYT best seller in his 2012 book, The Blinding Knife.

Weeks graduated from Hillsdale College in 2000 with an English degree. Before being a serious author, he taught briefly and was a bartender. He found his girl, Kristi Barnes, they were married and live in Oregon with their two daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Książkowe on July 15, 2024

Niespecjalnie ciekawe i niespecjalnie potrzebne.......more

Goodreads review by Petros on May 18, 2017

This still gives me goosebumps. "I got a bit of prophecy," the old assassin said. "Not enough to be useful, you know. Just glimpses. My wife dead, things like that to keep me up late at night. I had this vision that I was going to be killed by forty men, all at once. But now that you're here, I see t......more

Goodreads review by Shirin on March 04, 2023

Oh, this was goood!! "I know what I know. what I don't know is what you think you know. And if you use that tone again, you'll be picking it up from the floor."......more

Goodreads review by Peter on April 02, 2012

Nothing beats snacking on delicious Blintses.......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on September 29, 2020

Well crap... I guess I just spoiled the trilogy for myself by reading this first. I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking. With that said, I still want to read the trilogy and want to even more so after this little nugget. I was just getting into this world and it ended...of course now I know that......more