#Night Angel Trilogy

[alabasterandpitch]

Bit of afternoon journaling, trashy fantasy and a decent coffee

Sometimes the simple pleasures go a long way 🥰

[midcyru-and-the-chromeria]

[yuhi-san]

gotta love dorian, solon and feirs friendship.

solon finally meets his friend after a decade and the first thing he says to dorian is 'i should strangle you'

also the first thing feir says to solon is well you arent fat anymore

[cephandriusnimi]

@melaan this is for you, and maybe the subject of future posts

currently reading on my calculator: The Blinding Knife, Book 2 of The Lightbringer series (reread)

I also have various assorted SCP files on here, but i’ll probably move to the farseer trilogy/whatever is associated with that next.

[dramaticviolincrescendo]

That feeling when you finish Night Angel Nemesis and see the tag is still dead…

[joncronshawauthor]

Top Ten Assassins in Fantasy Literature You Need to Know About

I’d hazard a guess and say we’ve all thought about hiring an assassin from time to time, especially when someone nicks the last digestive biscuit. But alas, they don’t often pop up in the Yellow Pages, and frankly, they don’t come cheap. If you, like me, have a morbid fascination with these masters of shadow and intrigue, you’ll likely find these ten fantasy literature assassins a delightful…

[definitely-not-a-dragon-hoard]

Finished the new Night Angel book. OOOF forgot how sad these books are

[morfanerina]

After a decade or so procrastinating and having it on my shelf gathering dust, I have finally read the last of Brent Weeks' Night Angel trilogy (It was... an ending.).

Except apparently there's going to be another book in that universe called Night Angel Nemesis that comes out April this year.

Huh.

[belovedcarrion]

So I finished reading The Way of Shadows and I have Thoughts

courtesy warning: spoilers below, I'll try to keep it vague but read at your own risk

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(This got longer than intended so: page break!)

Okay?

Well first things first I thoroughly enjoyed it, the intrigue, the assassinations, the twists, all of it was amazing but there was one aspect I wasn't expecting

The book had lots of different themes but a major one was love both, familial and romantic

I was expecting the familial given the master apprentice relationship that dominants the majority of the book

The romantic aspect took me off guard, as far as I could tell it's not hinted at in the books summary but maybe I just missed and it's not like romance entirely is a deal breaker. I do my fair share of shipping and a good romance can add a lot to a story

But it has to be a good romance.

The romance in the way of the shadows felt...hollow

The reader is told multiple characters are in love but it never really feels like it. The closest way I can describe it is that it feels like a fairytale romance, sweet on the surface but no depth

Maybe in the next books it will get better but maybe it won't. Either way it will still be a major theme and certain romantic (sub?)plots will almost definitely contribute to major parts of the story

It makes me hesitant to buy the sequels because while I tolerated the romance in the first book I worry that in the later books I will find a major driving force completely uncompelling and will be taken out of the story entirely

[cmlmrbl]

danny and nicholas — you have to look closer

[alabasterandpitch]

This metaphor has NO business going this hard but I'm here for it.

[midcyru-and-the-chromeria]

[greendayauthority]

Song messages in the deluxe version of the ¡Uno! book

Nuclear Family

'Pick a summer... and summer... take a peek at the salt water and who gives a fuck... ya know? That's where this begins'

Stay the Night

'Haven't felt an impulse like this in eons. I guess that heart burn never goes away... just a bit caged'

Carpe Diem

'"Too young to die?" Well I say "aren't all too young to die?" Does the future have enough time to live in the moment?

Let Yourself Go

'How much can I pay you not to finish your story? You keep telling the same story over & over & over & over & over & over & over punch me in the fucking face!'

Kill the DJ

'Ah yes, which leads us to this 4 on the floor. Sometimes I could drink my way through this era. Take pills & fuck the noise away. And dance in the ashes of nonsense.'

Fell For You

'Wet dreams for the middle-fuck crisis. Keep your heart in a box with a lock on it for god's sake!'

Billie Joe also said something similar on the closing night of American Idiot on Broadway: 'Keep your fucking heart young, goddammit. Keep it fucking all comfy all the time. Don’t fucking stop, there’s a reason why that hand is holding the heart. It just keeps squeeze that motherfucker till it still bleeds every goddamn day.'

Loss of Control

'Look how far we've come.'

Troublemaker

'✓ Beach ✓ Douchebags ✓ Sluts ✓ Bars ✓ Tattoo shops. How convenient!'

Angel Blue

'It's better to just rip the band-aid off'

'Baby has barely started!'

Sweet 16

'I remember you drinking Olde English driving all the way out. Sunbathing at Pinole Shores. My Minnesota Girl. Always.'

Rusty James

'I read your book... it was a piece of shit. You traded that spiked belt in for a killer job at Pete's Coffee. Way to go! By the way, I've always wanted to smash your fucking teeth in. 🖤'

Oh Love

'Love like a good horror film.' / 'The tattoo wore off. More like "Oh well." I talked myself out of you. Even though I was never considered. Tension.'

[yuhi-san]

currently listening to the audio book for the way of shadows by brent weeks. I read the books ages ago and need a refresher before I can read angels nemesis

 (also got a friend to order them and start on them as well yeeesss)

 And honestly, Dorian, Solon and Feir are still my favorites. Their dynamic is just gold.

I wish we had a book pre series that followed them becomming friends and somehow getting curoch.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Some Bangel and Cangel Parallels I've Noticed and Decided to Compile Together for Fun

Though I ask that fans of both ships stay respectful here and don't attack the other one for any reason, please. If you do, I may have to remove replies and that sort of thing. Thank you.

Cordy and Buffy calling Angel "salty goodness."

Angel Comparing Both Buffy and Cordy to angels

Cangel:

Bangel:

Buffy and Cordy both wishing Angel would smile more:

Something I'm not mentioning in text here for reasons, but the context should become quickly obvious.

Buffy and Cordy both using vanilla perfume.

Buffy:

Cordy:

Buffy and Cordy both giving Angel flowers:

And the last thing I noticed has too many parts to it--and won't fit here with the picture limit, so I'll have to post it in a part 2 that I'll link when it's up:)

Edit: Here's the link to the last one:

[lez0mbie]

so i’m reading book 2 of the Night Angel trilogy, Shadow’s Edge, and… it’s just really clear to me that a lot of male fantasy authors cannot conceive of a world without misogyny.

in this world alone, there’s magic, ppl that are immortal, a person who can prophesy the future, dragons! etc. but rampant, horrifying misogyny is still prevalent why?? i keep reading and i see no good reason why women are treated like shit all throughout. “it’s a medieval fantasy tho HUR DURR” shut up, if dragons can exist, why can’t a society that treats women as equals?

there’s literally a girl who is the apprentice of a (male) ASSASSIN and i thought, okay, here’s a female character who will be taken seriously but NO, bc she gets regularly raped by said assassin. she’s badass but how many times does she have to dress provocatively to distract a male with her cleavage to get what she needs from him? why does she have to be complicit in her own objectification whereas the main character, a male assassin, somehow comes up with more creative ways to reach his goals?

not only that, there’s rape, sexual abuse, constant objectification. even small comments like when someone said a woman wouldn’t be taken seriously as a queen or leader of a nation. that true of real life–why does that have to be true in this world??

the only strong female main character would have to be a woman who’s literally a madame of a brothel, a place where women flock to to work when they have no choice (and it’s made clear it’s not a choice). they go to hers bc she treats them slightly better than other brothel owners would. and even she’s not present much.

and for some reason, this author likes to mention the ages of girls whenever he has the chance to, when they’re like 15, 16, 17, and put in compromising situations open to sexual abuse? for example, he writes, ‘Daydra looked like a new woman. Though barely seventeen, she’d been a successful prostitute before the invasion, and tonight Kaldrosa saw why she had done so well.’ i haven’t kept track of the other times, but IM TELLING YOU literally so many times their ages have to be pointed out, like i’m not allowed to forget these are actual children being abused by grown men. i find it shady but that’s just me.

anyways i think only a very small handful of female characters have either not been raped, are not demeaned for being women, or haven’t started working at the brothel. there’s a lot of female characters and it says a lot that i can’t say this for most of them. this attitude to and opinion of women makes no room for actual great female characters to be at the forefront, to actually matter. bc only the men can be strong. only the men get taken seriously.

this book is written as if it never even crossed the writer’s mind that women might actually read this series. it’s just tiring.

unrelated, but this book is also giving middle book syndrome.