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  • A Night Angel Novella
  • Written by: Brent Weeks
  • Narrated by: James Langton
  • Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (35 ratings)

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Perfect Shadow

Written by: Brent Weeks
Narrated by: James Langton
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Publisher's Summary

For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint.

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

But when Gaelan must take a job hunting down the world's finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena, what he finds may destroy everything he's ever believed in.

©2011 Brent Weeks (P)2011 Hachette

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great story, great performance. *****

the story jumps around a lot but the performer does a great job with inflection of character so you easily notice.

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Great story!

Some names from previous books are pronounced differently because of the different narrator, but all around a great listen.

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Great little book

Would have been better had the narrator been the same. But a good fun story.

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Don’t change a narrator

After knowing and loving the characters from the trilogy read by one person changing to another narrator very much so ruined this epilogue for me

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