{"id":5729,"date":"2011-03-03T00:15:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T08:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2011-03-02T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T21:30:31","slug":"an-aside-synopsis-for-perfect-shadow-by-brent-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/news\/an-aside-synopsis-for-perfect-shadow-by-brent-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | Synopsis for PERFECT SHADOW by Brent Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>Via The Mad Hatter’s Book Shelf & Book Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Foul, Unnatural Murder of Gaelan Starfire & the Birth of Durzo Blint<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a bit of prophecy,\u201d the old assassin said. \u201cNot enough to be useful, you know. Just glimpses. My wife dead, things like that to keep me up late at night. I had this vision that I was going to be killed by forty men, all at once. But now that you\u2019re here, I see they\u2019re just you. Durzo Blint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Durzo Blint? Gaelan had never even heard the name.<\/p>\n

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\nGaelan Starfire is a farmer now, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He\u2019s also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he\u2019s worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often he\u2019s become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble.<\/p>\n

But when Gaelan must take a job hunting down the world\u2019s finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena, what he finds may destroy everything he\u2019s ever believed in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I enjoyed The Black Prism<\/strong> well enough, but I’ve not read Weeks’ Night Angel Trilogy<\/em>, but this prequel novella has me somewhat interested. More than anything, I like the idea that Orbit Books will be releasing an eBook edition of Perfect Shadow<\/strong> (an awful title, but whatever) both as a treat for fans of the series and as incentive for skeptics like me to give Weeks’ successful series a closer look. Plus, I’m a sucker for peerless-in-the-art-of-war-immortals-turned-farmer character archetypes.<\/p>\n

Also, Weeks is an awesome interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via The Mad Hatter’s Book Shelf & Book Review: The Foul, Unnatural Murder of Gaelan Starfire & the Birth of Durzo Blint \u201cI got a bit of prophecy,\u201d the old assassin said. \u201cNot enough to be useful, you know. Just glimpses. My wife dead, things like that to keep me up late at night. I… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n