Cover of Perfect ShadowB-
FinishedDecember 8, 2018
GradeB-
GenreFantasy
PublisherOrbit, 2011
★ Review · December 8, 2018

Perfect Shadow

by Brent Weeks


Decent, I liked a twist near the end, but otherwise it was pedestrian.

Publisher Description

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. Also includes the short story, I, Nightangel. 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.

Where this fits · 2018 reading log
Book 49 of 2018 · the 34th Fantasy read of the year.