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A review by mrjspancakehouse
Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks
3.0
This entire series was bitter sweet. At times I absolutely despised Brent Weeks writing. Given this was my first Weeks book and after hearing great reviews I picked up the full trilogy. Almost a whopping 9 months later I pushed myself to read these books. The first was an interesting story about a young nobody growing up in the footsteps of a mysteriously powerful man.
First off I hate, hate, hate the character names in this story. Durzo blint... Kylar stern honestly Weeks could have used a Fantasy name generator and produced better names. Secondly the amount of unnecessary sexual awkwardness in book 2 felt like I was watching Titanic as a 8 year old kid all over again.
This is not to say Weeks created an awful Trilogy, just one I probably wouldn't recommend to anyone unless you are into assassins or as Weeks call's them "Wetboys .. seriously wtf?". Anyway Weeks has some fun plot twists that mainly pick up in the end of Book 1 and Book 3. You just need to power through the first 1/2 of book 2 to find the fun parts.
All in all this book was enjoyable but not close to Book 1's captivity.
I would rate this series a 2.75 / 5
First off I hate, hate, hate the character names in this story. Durzo blint... Kylar stern honestly Weeks could have used a Fantasy name generator and produced better names. Secondly the amount of unnecessary sexual awkwardness in book 2 felt like I was watching Titanic as a 8 year old kid all over again.
This is not to say Weeks created an awful Trilogy, just one I probably wouldn't recommend to anyone unless you are into assassins or as Weeks call's them "Wetboys .. seriously wtf?". Anyway Weeks has some fun plot twists that mainly pick up in the end of Book 1 and Book 3. You just need to power through the first 1/2 of book 2 to find the fun parts.
All in all this book was enjoyable but not close to Book 1's captivity.
I would rate this series a 2.75 / 5