Publishers Weekly
02/13/2023
Weeks cleverly continues the fantasy saga begun in his Night Angel trilogy with the exciting launch of the Kylar Chronicles spin-off series. Assassin Kylar Stern’s magic powers include a kind of immortality; he’s automatically restored to life when killed, but someone he loves then dies in his stead. He’s introduced while breaking into a heavily guarded estate to kill twisted artist Trudana Jadwin, the woman who murdered Stern’s foster sister, Magdalyn, and turned her corpse “into a perfectly lifelike statue made of undecaying flesh.” Following the end of the war that dominated the previous series, Jadwin is slated to benefit from a general royal amnesty declared by High King Logan Gyre, and Stern’s resolved to forestall that unjust outcome. This effort proves to be only the prologue to a more complex mission: the rescue of the monarch’s infant twins, possibly with the help of a magical artifact that Stern must locate first. Weeks keeps the plot moving, despite the book’s length, and makes it easy for newcomers to get engaged in this world. Fantasy fans who like roguish antiheroes will want to check this out. Agent: Donald Maass, Donald Maass Literary. (Apr.)
From the Publisher
Brent Weeks has been showing other fantasy authors how it’s done for over fifteen years.”—Peter V. Brett, New York Times bestselling author
"Weeks cleverly continues the fantasy saga... Weeks keeps the plot moving, despite the book’s length, and makes it easy for newcomers to get engaged in this world. Fantasy fans who like roguish antiheroes will want to check this out."—Publishers Weekly on Night Angel Nemesis
“Weeks is a giant of the genre." —Nicholas Eames
“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
“Weeks has truly cemented his place among the great epic fantasy writers of our time.”—British Fantasy Society
“Nobody does breakneck pacing and amazingly executed plot twists like Brent Weeks.”—Brian McClellan
“I was mesmerized from start to finish.”—Terry Brooks
Robin Hobb on The Black Prism
Brent Weeks has a style and immediacy of detail that pulls the reader relentlessly into his story. He doesn't allow you to look away.
B&N Reads: Best of the Year on The Burning White
Packed with all of the rich characterization, political intrigue, frenetic action, and clever color-based magic a fantasy lover could ask for, it may even be the best of the lot.
New York Times bestselling author of The Desert Sp Peter V. Brett
Brent Weeks is so good it's starting to tick me off.
author of Promise of Blood on The Black Prism Brian McClellan
Nobody does breakneck pacing and amazingly executed plot twists like Brent Weeks.
