Night Angel: Beyond the Shadows - Brent Weeks

Beyond The Shadows is the last volume of The Night Angel trilogy, unusually published at monthly rather than annual (or bigger) intervals. I liked that! I often find that the wait for the next instalment somehow dampens my enthusiasm for even the best sagas, at least initially, while having all three parts appear in the same pre-Christmas season (but not strictly all at once) kept my interest active. There isn't much point in reading ''Beyond The Shadows" as a stand-alone: it's really a one long, epic novel which clearly reaches its climax in the last sequences of the last book, and all three should be read, and in sequence. This volume is the ...  Read the complete review

Beyond The Shadows by Brent Weeks is the third and final book in the Night Angel Trilogy, following on from The Way Of Shadows and Shadow's Edge. I have reviewed the first two books already, and awarded them five and four stars respectively. If you've read those two reviews, you'll know that the this series stands out as being easy to read, yet action packed with a gritty and compelling plot. Once again I will have to give a few plot aspects away in this review, but as with the previous reviews I will not be revealing spoilers in any way, shape or form. As a trilogy this is one of the best in the fantasy genre that I have ever read, and certainly not an experience that ...  Read the complete review