I, Night Angel

Night Angel #3.5

by Brent Weeks

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, High Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Ebooks

30 pages, ebook

First published July 18, 2014

About the author

In a small-town Montana school at age 12, Brent Weeks met the two great loves of his life. Edgar Allan Poe introduced him to the power of literature to transcend time and death and loneliness. Fate introduced him to The Girl, Kristi Barnes. He began his pursuit of each immediately.

The novel was a failure. The Girl shot him down.

Since then–skipping the boring parts–Brent has written eight best-selling novels with the Night Angel Trilogy and the Lightbringer Series, won several industry awards, and sold a few million books.

Brent and his wife Kristi live in Oregon with their two daughters. (Yeah, he married The Girl.)

Reviews

[Derrik Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would absolutely love for Brent Weeks to continue this and make another night angel series. I enjoyed that this was in first person and there was a running dialogue with the KaKare, who I think to be the most interesting character in the series. My deepest wish for authors who have established series like this is for them to write frequent short stories, as if they were episodes rather than novels, and release them every couple of months. The night angel series is left open perfectly for this kind of endeavor and if I were any good at writing and had a solid story to tell, this would be what I would do.

[Hemesh Mishra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Especially when your torturee has no imagination. Fine. “This tube goes in your rectum. I force the mole down the tube. Then I tie your legs together so it can’t get out the way it went in. The mole panics and tries to dig out some other way. Good diggers, moles, and don’t need much air. Sometimes they actually dig their way out.”

“Oh gods have mercy.”

“Don’t make me do it, Duke. I don’t like killing the innocent.”

“I’m not… I’m not entirely innocent.”

“I was talking about the mole.”




Brent Weeks at his best

[Courtney · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.45
Enjoyed this and wouldn't mind a few more little novellas to follow this up, just to give updates or something to hold onto the characters and this world. I'm going to miss it.

[Terence · Rating 3 out of 5]

I, Night Angel feels like the introductory chapter to a new Night Angel novel. It has all the feel, good and bad, of the Night Angel trilogy.

You can read for free here

[Serena · Rating 4 out of 5]

My Rating System:
* couldn't finish, ** wouldn't recommend, *** would recommend, **** would read again, ***** have read again.

[KStar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this short story as much as the series

[Mike Bertrand · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short story taking place after the events of the third book, giving a peek at what Kylar Stern is up to. Also serves as a concept/idea of how Brent Weeks will go about writing the fourth book if he chooses to revisit this world.

[Salmaneser · Rating 5 out of 5]

This should be the first chapter of a new Nightangel trilogy.

[Henry · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short but welcome read from Brent Weeks. The Night Angel trilogy is one of my favorite works of all time and I love it when authors add to existing work. The first person narrative was a little different, and risked breaking the fourth wall, but in the end I think Weeks was able to pull it off due to the graphic nature of the story. Interestingly, as Kylar drip-feeds details and narrates about the role of imagination in torture, the reader is carried along, like the unfortunate Duke.

Thankfully, we are just reading.

[Jamie Maltman · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's more of a scene than a story, and yes, involves threat of torture. Still fun to revisit the world of the Night Angel.

[Nighteye · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was ok but incomplete so got a bid sad over that.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's been so long but I hope he comes around for at least one more novel in this series.

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

That's it?!?!? Seriously? But I want more of Kylar being a badass. More, I tell you!

[Cheruv · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this here:
https://www.wattpad.com/66662035-i-ni...
The only problem is that this is way too sort! :)

Ah Kylar... Probably one of my favourite protagonists in fantasy.

[Storm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brent Weeks wrote this as a thank you to fans for their pre-order of The Broken Eye. According to him it may turn into the first chapter of a new Night Angel book, it may become a short story or it may go as far as our eyes now and no farther. It is available on ebook and also free here on Wattpad.

Set after the events of Beyond the Shadows, Kylar has returned to Cenaria to tie up some "loose ends". He has his mark, and is perfecting his craft. This story honestly feels like an amuse bouche in that it whet my appetite and after consuming it I was hungry for the rest of the meal. It intrigued me enough to want more, so I hope Brent eventually returns to the world of the Night Angel and gives us more stories, and hopefully the innocent mole has a nice life.

[Pagan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating: 5/10
I'm Not Sure What The Purpose of the Novella Was

Warning: This review may contain spoilers.

I, Night Angel came together with Perfect Shadow when I bought the novella and I was excited to read another entry in the series. Unfortunately the excitement was short lived. It started with confusion, because there was no blurb prior to the start of the Novella, so you had no clue of the setting or the purpose of the novel. From there it only went downwind. I'm not sure what the point of the novella was because it went nowhere and didn't cover anything new.

[Quinn Morrow · Rating 2 out of 5]

My rating system deems this short story as a 2 star. Not because it was bad, but because I can't recommend it. It is just a story of a gruesome and disgusting torture scene. And honestly I believe it goes against Azoth/ Kylar's character. A lot must have happened between the end of Beyond the Shadows, which ended up preaching about love, and now, which shows Kylar committing vulgar atrocities.

The writing style was fun though. The banter with the Ka'Kari. The first person perspective. The writing toward the reader threw me off a little though. I'd be interested to see what Weeks could do with a writing style like this for a follow-up series.

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Listened to this as an audio book at https://soundcloud.com/brentweeks-1/i....

A short read, certainly not on the scale or magnitude of the Night Angel trilogy. The scene is almost completely focused on the nature of torture, and as the Night Angel, it is complete with just enough to make the reader aware of how gruesome it could/will be.

I enjoyed the short jaunt back into Kylar's world. Unfortunately, it really wasn't enough to satisfy the hunger for more Durzo and Kylar. This world has more to offer but only read this if you want to want more.

[Humfreak · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was an interesting chapter / scene.
too short to call a novella or whatever, it really is just a scene in which a man is about to be tortured.

the torture method is along the lines of american psycho, the lady and the rat.
the story is only online: https://www.orbitbooks.net/night-angel/

have fun, and i hope someday we get more durzo / night angel stuff ;-)

[Peter Toth · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not sure why this is being tracked as a separate novella, it's not even that. It might have been better placed as another epilogue as a last chapter of "Beyond the Shadows", but bundled with the prequel novella, it's just so very out of place. This does not stand as a standalone novelette either.

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

Much grittier than the Night Angel books, mainly because it doesn’t show you any of Kylar’s other qualities that make him more than just the avenging Night Angel. The ka’kari asides were amusing though; I’d like to have more of those. Content considerations: the entire novella is a torture scene, mentions of male anatomy. 18+

[Matthew Bane · Rating 3 out of 5]

What is up with the Night Angel books and rectums? I think this series has more "rump-play" in it that a thousand other books combined.
This is an interesting look into the relationship between the main character and his kakari.

[Bree Taylor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a fan.

This is a short piece that needs an introduction of where it falls in the chronology - especially if it falls in the same book as Perfect Shadow.

This short story was dark, gruesome, and wholly unnecessary for the entire series.

[Cole · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is actually now a chapter in Night Angel book 4. This is no longer chronologically a 3.5 story. The chapter itself could have been excluded from #4 and the book would have played out the exact same.

[L · Rating 3 out of 5]

While The Night Angel series is one of my all-time favorites, I, Night Angel felt far too short — almost like a bonus chapter rather than a short story. That said, it’s still worth reading for fans who want to revisit the world and characters.

[Alan Behan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Two words, just superb...💙

[Alannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really hope Brent Weeks continues this series!!!

[Sandy Morley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Decent enough. It hints at greatness, but doesn't go anywhere nor set a detailed scene in the way great shorts choose between.

[Sheity Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, concise. Gotta love Kylar in his Night Angel mode. I wanted more, but I guess this will do.

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Omg this is disturbingly hilarious. If you have ever heard of the stories of flaming gerbils you will know what I mean...