Night Angel Nemesis

Brent Weeks

Apr 2023 · Sold by Orbit

About this ebook

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.

"Weeks has been showing other fantasy authors how it's done for over fifteen years." — Peter V. Brett, author of The Desert Prince

"Weeks is a giant of the genre." — Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld After the war that cost him so much, Kylar Stern is broken and alone. He's determined not to kill again, but an impending amnesty will pardon the one murderer he can't let walk free. He promises himself this is the last time. One last hit to tie up the loose ends of his old, lost life.

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.

With rumors that a ka'kari may be found, adversaries both old and new are on the hunt. And if Kylar has learned anything, it’s that ancient magics are better left in the hands of those he can trust.

If he does the job right, he won’t need to kill at all. This isn’t an assassination — it’s a heist.

But some jobs are too hard for an easy conscience, and some enemies are so powerful the only answer lies in the shadows.

"Weeks writes in an inescapably engaging style. Breathlessly high stakes, terrible missteps, and unexpected revelations keep the story humming along at a breakneck pace." — Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

For more from Brent Weeks, check out:

The Ka'kari Codex

The Night Angel Trilogy
The Way of Shadows
Shadow's Edge
Beyond the Shadows

The Kylar Chronicles
Night Angel Nemesis

The Night Angel Trilogy: 10th Anniversary EditionNight Angel: The Complete Trilogy (omnibus) Perfect Shadow: A Night Angel Novella
The Way of Shadows: The Graphic Novel

Lightbringer
The Black Prism
The Blinding Knife
The Broken Eye
The Blood Mirror
The Burning White

Ratings and reviews

I loved the first three books, devoured them in a week. This one took 3 times as long and I was all too willing to put it down. I felt like the book was in part an artifice, a lie as it said several times, so many plot holes. Full fledged characters i was routing for from the trilogy like Durzo, Janine, Dorian and Logan felt like they got turned to cardboard by the black barrow. In many ways I am hoping it is a complete misdirection designed to play into the ineffectual stumbling baffoon trope the Chantry want to believe about Kylar (he did way too much of that) and to throw off Vi and the sisters from what truly happened, but this is a monumentally long and large investment for that and no matter how wrong the ending feels it is in keeping with the odd feel and direction this book took. Still intrigued where the story goes, enough to continue ploughing through, but this definitely took a triple dose of 4th book syndrome.

I hate this book, and I loved the night angel trilogy, I loved lightbringer, but the fact that he didn't do what he thought he did and the kakkari could've let him in on it, the fact the the one person he loves betrays him, that he doesn't face Logan kills me. the whole book is him running into something unprepared then trying to run and hide without using his magic over and over again. use the damn magic more imaginatively, I mean I finished this book so irritated if you can't tell

the shift to first person after the last series was jarring, and while I understand the need to show Kylar's inner workings, it got overly poetic and bogged down at times. Great story overall, but it got lost in a lot of noise. I don't regret reading it and will continue to read anything by Weeks, but the book could have been half as long and done the same job

About the author

Brent Weeks was born and raised in Montana. He wrote on bar napkins and lesson plans before landing his dream job years and thousands of pages later. Brent lives in Oregon with his wife, Kristi, and their daughters. Find out more about the author at www.brentweeks.com or on twitter @brentweeks.