Book Review: The Way of Shadows

As I said before, the first novel in the Night Angel Trilogy doesn't show many signs of fantasy up front, apart from a mix of common and unfamiliar names and some made-up geography. I think it was around page 80 that I became certain that magic even exists in its pseudo-medieval world, and no blatantly fictitious species rate a mention. Magic does play an important part, but subtly enough that author Brent Weeks clearly wants to impress us in ways other than sheer imagination.

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At the advice of both parents, I have borrowed The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. My reactions to Aspergian characters have been hit and miss; we'll see how this goes.