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Brent Weeks has a style and immediacy of detail that pulls the reader relentlessly into his story. He doesn't allow you to look away." BW: Certainly elements of this will continue. There’s reasons why this story in particular needed to be told this way, and the next story, the next chapter, will be told differently I think for reasons that will become obvious as you reach the ending. If he does the job right, he won't need to kill at all. This isn't an assassination - it's a heist. 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 Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown

The incredible return to the New York Times bestselling world of the Night Angel, where master assassin Kylar Stern embarks on a new adventure as the High King Logan Gyre calls on him to save his kingdom and the hope of peace. BW: The reason I wanted to shift narrative styles in this one was partly to give this series its own identity. But another huge part is, as a writer I’m always looking for new narrative challenges. I’m trying to grow my skills, and I’m trying to do different things. I know I could probably make a really great living doing books just like the Night Angeltrilogy yearly, and just put out the same thing, change the names a little bit, change who Kylar’s killing this week. I could spin that out for a long time and have a very lucrative career, but that’s just not the kind of personality I have. If I do that, boredom is death for my art. So I always need to be doing new things, I always want to be stretching myself and trying things that are hard and scary for me. BW: Great questions. So the Night Angeltrilogy is a trilogy, it’s books one through three, it tells a complete story. But it is also books one through three of The Ka’kari Codex. And The Kylar Chronicles[are a standalone trilogy], but they are books four, five, and six in The Ka’kari Codex. And then we will have a pivot again to probably a focus on different characters, and maybe a jump in time. I have a couple little different narrative options that I’m still experimenting with, so I expect another pivot there. And then I’m going to revisit some of the major events that I wrote in that original book. Maybe one or two of the characters I will keep, the rest of it, I’m not even gonna look at it again. The big things I wanted to happen, those are still going to happen. The core of the characters are still going to be there. But man, I’m not going to try to save writing that I did as a 19-year-old. It would be too painful for me to look at. [Laughs] If he does the job right, he won’t need to kill at all. This isn’t an assassination – it’s a heist.

AUTHOR OF THE LIGHTBRINGER SERIES AND THE NIGHT ANGEL TRILOGY

Nemesis is a very well written book. It twists and turns and makes you uncertain of where it is going, but in the best way possible. Brent weaves several complex plots through the story and frequently changes between first and third person. The majority of the book is in first person from Kylar’s perspective and this gives us a window into his mind like we’ve never had before. While I initially found it jarring coming from the original series and Lightbringer, Brent executes it very well. Weeks has truly cemented his place among the great epic fantasy writers of our time' British Fantasy Society In a small-town Montana school at age 12, Brent Weeks met the two great loves of his life. Edgar Allan Poe introduced him to speculative fiction and the power of literature to transcend time and death and loneliness. Fate introduced him to The Girl, Kristi Barnes. He began his pursuit of each immediately. Nemesis was a hard book for me to read for many reasons. I read the original Night Angel trilogy when I was in High School shortly after they came out. The books were instrumental in my transitioning from teen fantasy to adult fantasy and they informed my preferences for years to come. They were important books to me and I have longed for more for a very long time. All of this said, I now find myself conflicted because some small part of me hoped for the future of these characters who I had fallen in love with. I wanted to see them heal and to be happy, but anyone who has read the original trilogy knows that things could never be quite that simple.

But Kylar's best — and maybe only — friend, the High King Logan Gyre, needs him. To protect a fragile peace, Logan’s new kingdom, and the king’s twin sons, he needs Kylar to secure a powerful magical artifact that was unearthed during the war. Unforgettable characters, a plot that kept me guessing, non-stop action and the kind of in-depth storytelling that makes me admire a writer’s work‘ Terry Brooks You’re rereading the original Night Angel Trilogy while you wait for ANY information about NIGHT ANGEL NEMESIS because those blasted people at Team Weeks are being stubborn and refusing to share even the teeniest bit of information about it and you can’t keep combing social media for some morsel of what’s to come. Fourteen years after the conclusion of his hugely popular Night Angel trilogy, fantasy author Brent Weeks has returned to the world of Midcryu with the long-awaited sequel Night Angel Nemesis. Nemesismarks the beginning of a new sequence of novels, The Kylar Chronicles, which follow titular assassin Kyler Stern on the next chapter of his dark journey. Night Angel Nemesis by Brent Weeks. Image courtesy of Orbit Books. Can you read Night Angel Nemesis without having read the original trilogy?

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Nemesis is most definitely the first chapter in a much larger story. Much of this story is laying the groundwork for what will come, but Nemesis does not suffer for it. It is a well told story with a distinct beginning, middle, and end. While that ending left me with questions and very complex and conflicting emotions, I am content with the story that Brent told. reality can really disappoint with a new release you are most excited about. This was not the case here. DR: Before the call we got talking a little bit about George R.R. Martin, and you had mentioned that he was an influence on you. So I was just curious about the story there. How did you discover George’s books?

Night Angel Nemesisis the beginning of a new trilogy set in the world of Midcyru: The Kylar Chronicles. It signals a huge expansion of the Night Angeluniverse, and now that it’s out, Weeks is finally teasing the grand plan he has ahead for characters like assassin Kylar Stern.If he does the job right, he won’t need to kill at all. This isn’t an assassination — it’s a heist. Although this novel has its faults, I found them minor niggles in an otherwise great reading experience. I will be shoving Night Angel Nemesis into the palms of anyone who asks me for a dark and twisty recommendation. If any fans of grimdark are yet to discover this world, I thoroughly recommend it, and if, like me, you want to return to Midcyru I do not think you will be disappointed. It is one of my favourite reads of this year. Thank you so much to Brent Weeks and the team at Orbit for sending over a copy of Night Angel Nemesis for me to review. Weeks creates a rich blend of politics, culture and character . . . then throws in magic-using assassins‘ Peter V. Brett So I love that he kind of took the genre and he just ran his own way with it. He was like, yeah, I’m doing my own thing and your’e gonna have these super long chapters, which I thought were brilliant. When I was a young writer, I actually studied [his work and writing techniques].

Skipping the boring parts, since then, Brent has written eight best-selling novels with the Night Angel Trilogy and the Lightbringer Series, won several awards, and sold a few million books. But Kylar's best - and maybe only - friend, the High King Logan Gyre, needs him. To protect a fragile peace, Logan's new kingdom, and the king's twin sons, he needs Kylar to secure a powerful magical artifact that was unearthed during the war. One of the reasons that the worlds hang together or that you feel like there’s this foreshadowing…is the first novel I wrote was set in this world but 20 years later. I had this one really amazing character show up — I actually had three or four characters cross over, and I love these characters but the novel was broken. I’d done some things wrong structurally. And so when I threw it away I was like you know what…I like some of the worldbuilding I did, and I know where things are going. I know where history is headed. And in that [book] there was this one character who showed up and I was like that guys’ a badass. He’s scary and yet he’s got this code. And so…who is he?Again, this was a tough read for me. I was forced to confront my naive hope for a happy ending and accept that these characters have been through a lot and that healing doesn’t come so fast, or so easy. I will never see them the same again, but that doesn’t change my hope for their futures. Life is hard, especially for magical assassins, but there is always hope. I was fortunate enough to be chosen to be a beta reader for Brent Week's upcoming novel, Night Angel: Nemesis. While I cannot go into details regarding the exact process involved in the beta read, I can say that it gave me a very interesting perspective on the novel and ended up elevating my opinion of the book.



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