Minus the unfortunate side effects of acne, neck hump, obesity, testicular atrophy, and man-boobs. Which is basically an assassin on steroids. Join my 3-emails-a-year newsletter #prizesĪ plucky street urchin Azoth wants to be a wetboy (*). Then again I could have done a lot of other things with that day. Perhaps the book benefited from me having a rare day to myself and reading most of it in one go. Like that book TWoS takes what I loved about 80's fantasy and grows it up for the more demanding, hard-edged tastes of today. I could perhaps have stood fewer discussions on the city's varied architecture but that's the very minor niggle on the back of a great deal of enjoyment.Īnd that friend of mine who wasn't a fan - she wasn't a fan of The Warded Man either, which I loved, and I have to say that this is probably the most enjoyable read I've had since devouring Brett's The Warded Man several years ago.

The pacing is good and there are few info dumps. There's as much action as any reader could want, varied and interesting magic, tight plotting from a good number of interesting points of view. There are plenty of emotional scenes and even though I could see the strings being pulled, I still got drawn in. I call the book fun, and it is, but that's not to diminish it in any way. who knew? I don't enjoy every popular book but I do generally find out that there's a good reason why they're popular.īrent Weeks is a great story teller and his writing is plenty strong enough to carry the load. It turns out that I tend to like what people tend to like.

In any event, my expectations were not sky high. though I could be over-reading 140 characters there. even Weeks himself seemed a touch apologetic about his debut when he saw my tweet about starting it. I'd read a couple of sniffy reviews about this book and a friend was very meh about it.

The way of shadows by brent weeks