![]() ![]() So I'm going to say I enjoyed it, overall, but I'm also going to say that it falls short of greatness on a number of levels, mostly having to do with being so obviously derivative. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins’ world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.īook One of the Night Angel Trilogy bears the marks of a hundred predecessors, but it has enough style and plotting to stand out from the crowd. ![]() Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.īut to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As a guild rat, he’s grown up in the slums, and learned the hard way to judge people quickly - and to take risks. And he is the city’s most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir.įor Azoth, survival is precarious. Only targets.įor Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. Orbit, 2008, 688 pages (mass market paperback) Inverarity One-line summary: The Grimdark Adventures of Batman and Robin as assassins in a medieval fantasy world. ![]()
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