Comments on: Welcome! http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/ Author of the Night Angel trilogy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:30:01 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Hannes http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-729 Hannes Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:04:53 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-729 Brent Weeks, I read this book last year along with all of the rest of the trilogy. This is my favorite series of books that I have ever read. The book is so in depth that I feel as if I have known each character. You did an amazing job writing this book and all of the others. I am looking forward to the next book you write. Hannes Brent Weeks,

I read this book last year along with all of the rest of the trilogy. This is my favorite series of books that I have ever read. The book is so in depth that I feel as if I have known each character. You did an amazing job writing this book and all of the others. I am looking forward to the next book you write.

Hannes

]]> By: Jon Sploder http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Jon Sploder Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:04:29 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-254 Sorry for kinda reviving this Post, but firstly, by people posting here really shows that you've made such a great trilogy that your fans (I am now entitling myself a fan) track you down and leave comments. You should be extremely proud. I am 13 and I got the trilogy for Christmas. I read it all on boxing day, I couldn't put it down, in fact I only got 1 hours sleep that night much to the devastation of my mother. I just want to say thanks for making such a great trilogy, more please!! I'll be hanging around in the shadows. Shhh. Sorry for kinda reviving this Post, but firstly, by people posting here really shows that you’ve made such a great trilogy that your fans (I am now entitling myself a fan) track you down and leave comments. You should be extremely proud.
I am 13 and I got the trilogy for Christmas. I read it all on boxing day, I couldn’t put it down, in fact I only got 1 hours sleep that night much to the devastation of my mother.

I just want to say thanks for making such a great trilogy, more please!! I’ll be hanging around in the shadows. Shhh.

]]> By: gabriel francisco http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-151 gabriel francisco Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:12:22 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-151 Brent, after finishing the first book i read your end notes and decided that every human who does what they love speaks to others who do the same. i am half way through the 2nd and i have a few thank yous. thank you for releasing these books one after the other. the wheel of time and other wonderful series like them start to lose their wonder after 2-3 year between novels. thank you for a fresh story line, like u said, new land, magic, etc...i am utterly involved with your characters and find myself laughing at the banter and wit and screaming as one by one, my favorites perish or become incapacitated for the time being...my relationship to my girlfriend right now is in that baby trueness that kylar and elene are searching for and reading it while feeling it is amazing. so thanks so much. i am a dancer, choreographer and teacher of contemporary hip hop. i teach around the world, inspiring others with music and movement. i inspire myself through high level anime and novels. if you see some of my choreo you will also see a lot of martial art. i have had kung fu and ballet masters both give compliments...i feel like i am living a dream. so from one dreamer and do-er to another...thanks brotha...if i can ever be of any help, know that you have an honest hard working dreamwalker on your side.... peace and love, Gabriel Brent,
after finishing the first book i read your end notes and decided that every human who does what they love speaks to others who do the same.
i am half way through the 2nd and i have a few thank yous. thank you for releasing these books one after the other. the wheel of time and other wonderful series like them start to lose their wonder after 2-3 year between novels. thank you for a fresh story line, like u said, new land, magic, etc…i am utterly involved with your characters and find myself laughing at the banter and wit and screaming as one by one, my favorites perish or become incapacitated for the time being…my relationship to my girlfriend right now is in that baby trueness that kylar and elene are searching for and reading it while feeling it is amazing.
so thanks so much.
i am a dancer, choreographer and teacher of contemporary hip hop. i teach around the world, inspiring others with music and movement. i inspire myself through high level anime and novels. if you see some of my choreo you will also see a lot of martial art. i have had kung fu and ballet masters both give compliments…i feel like i am living a dream. so from one dreamer and do-er to another…thanks brotha…if i can ever be of any help, know that you have an honest hard working dreamwalker on your side….
peace and love,
Gabriel

]]> By: Larry http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Larry Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:03:59 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-148 Hey Brent, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your fantasies, dreams, and most of all your talent as a writer. I as much as any of your readers could only dream of having but an ounce of your courage and skill to script out the fantasies that linger in our minds. I've trained for years in the art of ninjitsu/bujitsu but I'm sane enough to now that I can't go around the neighborhood testing my skills out, so it felt good to be able to open a book that pulled me from reality for while. Again, thank you and I'm looking forward to reading Shadow's Edge and Beyond the Shadows. Larry Hey Brent, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your fantasies, dreams, and most of all your talent as a writer. I as much as any of your readers could only dream of having but an ounce of your courage and skill to script out the fantasies that linger in our minds.

I’ve trained for years in the art of ninjitsu/bujitsu but I’m sane enough to now that I can’t go around the neighborhood testing my skills out, so it felt good to be able to open a book that pulled me from reality for while.
Again, thank you and I’m looking forward to reading Shadow’s Edge and Beyond the Shadows.

Larry

]]> By: marti http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-136 marti Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:04:10 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-136 OK - I should have read the acknowledgements section of your book first - because if I had known you were a George RR Martin fan before I began your book - I might not have had to throw it across the room! How could you kill Durzo Blint??!! I read your first book over the weekend. I generally get hooked on a series because of the characters - and Durzo is one of the best I've found since the Hunter in the Cold Fire Trilogy. But you killed him ...just when we were learning such great things about him - 700 years old,in love with Momma K. I had already purchased the second book (I'm also a sucker for mysterious looking gentleman on book covers)- so I guess I will keep reading - hopefully you will also be one of those sneaky authors that kills characters, but somehow they come back to life....I can't believe an author would tease us readers with interesting tidbits about a major character and then just write him off - I mean, that would just be down right mean - and the interview and "extras" in the back of the book made you seem like such a nice guy..... :-) anyway - I really just wanted to let you know that I thoroughly enjoyed your first book and even though you have done away with my favorite character in said book - I will keep reading. Thanks for the great story! OK – I should have read the acknowledgements section of your book first – because if I had known you were a George RR Martin fan before I began your book – I might not have had to throw it across the room! How could you kill Durzo Blint??!! I read your first book over the weekend. I generally get hooked on a series because of the characters – and Durzo is one of the best I’ve found since the Hunter in the Cold Fire Trilogy. But you killed him …just when we were learning such great things about him – 700 years old,in love with Momma K. I had already purchased the second book (I’m also a sucker for mysterious looking gentleman on book covers)- so I guess I will keep reading – hopefully you will also be one of those sneaky authors that kills characters, but somehow they come back to life….I can’t believe an author would tease us readers with interesting tidbits about a major character and then just write him off – I mean, that would just be down right mean – and the interview and “extras” in the back of the book made you seem like such a nice guy….. :-) anyway – I really just wanted to let you know that I thoroughly enjoyed your first book and even though you have done away with my favorite character in said book – I will keep reading. Thanks for the great story!

]]> By: Andrew Femling http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Andrew Femling Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:53:35 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-80 Wow, really amazing work. Sir you have made a fan for a lifetime, thank you very much! I have a hard time picking up a new author. I find little time to read books like i did when i was younger and to take a risk of a new writer is hard over a old, known author. I choose yours, because it caught me up in the first chapter:) I was hooked, i wanted to know more, i wanted to know about this world, the magic, and the characters. I have rarely seen the depth you have used to create the cast of characters in your book. They come alive in my mind, i can feel for them, hope for them, and have even cheered a time or two as i have read this great read. Again thank you! I also love the acknowledgments, I caught a glimmer of the writer, and that he is a good person, when he spends time to thank those around him... even the mail man. Again thank you! Finally, i hope life is good for you. I hope that these words can show you how your work has touched a reader, played with his emotions, and then left him wanting more. For the last time Thank you! and a good life to you and your family. Drew Wow, really amazing work. Sir you have made a fan for a lifetime, thank you very much! I have a hard time picking up a new author. I find little time to read books like i did when i was younger and to take a risk of a new writer is hard over a old, known author. I choose yours, because it caught me up in the first chapter:)

I was hooked, i wanted to know more, i wanted to know about this world, the magic, and the characters. I have rarely seen the depth you have used to create the cast of characters in your book. They come alive in my mind, i can feel for them, hope for them, and have even cheered a time or two as i have read this great read. Again thank you!

I also love the acknowledgments, I caught a glimmer of the writer, and that he is a good person, when he spends time to thank those around him… even the mail man. Again thank you!

Finally, i hope life is good for you. I hope that these words can show you how your work has touched a reader, played with his emotions, and then left him wanting more. For the last time Thank you! and a good life to you and your family. Drew

]]> By: Jessica http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Jessica Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:31:56 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-79 So I found this book in a backwoods airport and started reading immediately. I'd spent the week working 10 and 12 hour days, the nights trying desperately to fall asleep. Of course, I started reading immediately. Read on the plane, read in the taxi, read at home until I was done around 1 AM. This book. Heartbreakingly beautiful. Hit a chord, though I don't recall being any type of assassin. Going to Borders to see if I can find 'Shadow's Edge'. So I found this book in a backwoods airport and started reading immediately. I’d spent the week working 10 and 12 hour days, the nights trying desperately to fall asleep. Of course, I started reading immediately. Read on the plane, read in the taxi, read at home until I was done around 1 AM.

This book. Heartbreakingly beautiful. Hit a chord, though I don’t recall being any type of assassin. Going to Borders to see if I can find ‘Shadow’s Edge’.

]]> By: Cat K. http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Cat K. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:46:45 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-76 I use to be an avid fantasy reader but during college I slowly stopped reading for enjoyment. After graduating I was looking for a job (ok still am) and haunting Barnes & Noble. Suddenly this moody 'wetboy' is staring at me from the cover of The Way of the Shadow. I resisted,no impulse buying when I didn't have a job, but then I got a kind birthday gift and the first thing on my mind was getting the book. It was gone. No copy in Barnes & Noble anymore. Doom. Long exposition short...I went to Borders and found it. ....Yeeeeah, I finished it in three days. I don't know if I've ever read so fast in my life. I had expected to drag through it after so long away from books and the size of it was impressive. I couldn't put it down. I think I forgot to eat sometimes...hmm. Azoth and Durzo Blint are so well-developed, not to mention the side characters, which only get that title in reflection to the overwhelming grandeur of Azoth and Blint. Each character seems more like a real person, acting accordingly to the terrible situations around them, than a fictional creation. The book takes you from the highest moments of triumph to the lowest pits of loss so grippingly (sure its a word) that you feel the same shock and pain the characters feel. Mr. Weeks has developed a complex and rich world full of death, magic, political intrigue and great twists. My only problem was getting so wrapped up that I started skipping words and had to go back to reread. I can't wait for the second book and * put hand to forehead* will faithfully bug all the books stores for when they'll have it, not if, to increase the hype. I use to be an avid fantasy reader but during college I slowly stopped reading for enjoyment. After graduating I was looking for a job (ok still am) and haunting Barnes & Noble. Suddenly this moody ‘wetboy’ is staring at me from the cover of The Way of the Shadow. I resisted,no impulse buying when I didn’t have a job, but then I got a kind birthday gift and the first thing on my mind was getting the book. It was gone. No copy in Barnes & Noble anymore. Doom.

Long exposition short…I went to Borders and found it.

….Yeeeeah, I finished it in three days. I don’t know if I’ve ever read so fast in my life. I had expected to drag through it after so long away from books and the size of it was impressive. I couldn’t put it down. I think I forgot to eat sometimes…hmm.

Azoth and Durzo Blint are so well-developed, not to mention the side characters, which only get that title in reflection to the overwhelming grandeur of Azoth and Blint. Each character seems more like a real person, acting accordingly to the terrible situations around them, than a fictional creation.

The book takes you from the highest moments of triumph to the lowest pits of loss so grippingly (sure its a word) that you feel the same shock and pain the characters feel.

Mr. Weeks has developed a complex and rich world full of death, magic, political intrigue and great twists.

My only problem was getting so wrapped up that I started skipping words and had to go back to reread.

I can’t wait for the second book and * put hand to forehead* will faithfully bug all the books stores for when they’ll have it, not if, to increase the hype.

]]> By: brent http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-45 brent Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:12:23 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-45 James, they say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Uh, apparently they're wrong. So glad to be an inspiration for you, even if in a small way. If you have to write, you know you do. So don't fight it, just do it. Artemis, if I can make you go from crying to hell-yeahs!, then I count this book a wild success. That is deeply gratifying...and oddly humbling... as are all of these compliments. And here, I think, is why: A book is just ink on paper; a STORY is something you and I make together. I have a story (a house if you will) in my head, but the words on the page aren't that whole house, they're just a blueprint. So I ship that blueprint out into the world and just hold my breath. That's why I thank you all and why I feel humbled: you've taken something I care deeply about and made something awesome out of it. Something worth crying about, or something that inspires, or something that makes you say HELL YEAH! That's why I love this job. That's magic. James, they say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Uh, apparently they’re wrong. So glad to be an inspiration for you, even if in a small way. If you have to write, you know you do. So don’t fight it, just do it.
Artemis, if I can make you go from crying to hell-yeahs!, then I count this book a wild success. That is deeply gratifying…and oddly humbling… as are all of these compliments. And here, I think, is why:
A book is just ink on paper; a STORY is something you and I make together. I have a story (a house if you will) in my head, but the words on the page aren’t that whole house, they’re just a blueprint. So I ship that blueprint out into the world and just hold my breath. That’s why I thank you all and why I feel humbled: you’ve taken something I care deeply about and made something awesome out of it. Something worth crying about, or something that inspires, or something that makes you say HELL YEAH!
That’s why I love this job. That’s magic.

]]> By: Artemis Lisserman http://www.thewayofshadows.com/2008/09/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Artemis Lisserman Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:15:03 +0000 http://www.thewayofshadows.com/news/?p=1#comment-44 I must confess I stopped reading books altogether, because of the American life (busy...busy), Then I started taking the train to work and picked up one of your books at the train station bookstore. After reading about 30 pages into your book, I was surprised and amazed. This book is immensily good. Some parts of it made me cry, and I am not the crying type. Some parts of this book made me go "Hell YEA!" It's something about growing up with a character from the time he is so young, you really connect with him, as well as the other characters like Momma K, Durzo and Jarl. There is a certain realism in these characters that one could relate to. This is more than a fantasy novel, it's an adventure that will make you hold the book for hours even into the night. I must confess I stopped reading books altogether, because of the American life (busy…busy), Then I started taking the train to work and picked up one of your books at the train station bookstore. After reading about 30 pages into your book, I was surprised and amazed. This book is immensily good. Some parts of it made me cry, and I am not the crying type. Some parts of this book made me go “Hell YEA!” It’s something about growing up with a character from the time he is so young, you really connect with him, as well as the other characters like Momma K, Durzo and Jarl. There is a certain realism in these characters that one could relate to. This is more than a fantasy novel, it’s an adventure that will make you hold the book for hours even into the night.

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