I love and hate reading novellas/short stories about characters from books I have previously read. 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.īut 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. He’s also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war.
Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father a careful, quiet, simple man. Durzo Blint.”ĭurzo Blint? Gaelan had never even heard the name.
But now that you’re here, I see they’re all you. I had this vision that I was going to be killed by forty men, all at once. My wife dead, things like that to keep me up late at night. “I got a bit of prophecy,” the old assassin said. Meaning that if you read beyond this point, you will learn somethings about the story, that authors does not revel until the second and third books of the series.īackcover: Discover the origins of Durzo Blint in this original novella set in the world of Brent Weeks’ New York Times bestselling Night Angel trilogy. *Please not that this is prequel novella of a series. We are among a huge assortment of historical figures: Queen Elizabeth, Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh, just to mention a few.Perfect Shadow (The Night Angel Trilogy #0.5) by Brent WeeksĪ must read for all fans of the Night Angel Trilogy, and especially those who are interested in learning more about Durzo. Shadow of Night starts where A Discovery of Witches left off Diana and Matthew land at Matthew's house in Woodstock, England, in the year 1590. The first volume ends with a cliff hanger as the two, now a couple, flee into the past, into Elizabethan England. This is the beginning of a sprawling adventure that combines the supernatural with discussions of Darwin, genetics, fine wines (Harkness writes a wine blog), and much more. Her life threatened, Diana teams up with Matthew Clairmont, an Oxford geneticist who also happens to be a 1,500-year-old vampire. Holed up in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Diana is suddenly hounded by witches, daemons and vampires after she asks to see an alchemical text, Ashmole 782 - which turns out to be both long-lost and strangely magical. If you haven't read it, here's a primer: A reluctant witch, Diana Bishop, the descendant of Salem witches, rejects her supernatural ancestry and becomes a historian. Deborah Harkness, a historian of science at the University of Southern California, was the perfect person to pull off a mix that some readers called "Harry Potter for intellectuals."
The first book in the All Souls trilogy, A Discovery of Witches, was a tour de force, an artful and unusually skilled blending of hard science, history and the supernatural. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Shadow Of Night Author Deborah Harkness
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