The Night Angel Trilogy, Book One: The Way of the Shadows by Brent Weeks

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist. 

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.

Stitchley's Raiting: 

This story was a really interesting story that was full of darkness that is found in much of human nature, and the with an interesting way of showing how we can be forced to change our very nature one step at a time.  In many ways this is a story of survival where Kylar is forced to slowly give up much of himself while he struggles to hang on to a small part of what is his humanity and his soul.  The story is very intriguing and complex.  When the book ends you can't help but want to read the next one in the Trilogy, but it is filled very much with the slums that he grows up in and the evils that he wishes to overcome and rise above.

Experiment 429's Rating: THUMBS UP

Instances of Swearing:

• Hell: 54
• Ass: 8
• Bitch: 4
• FU: 8
• Shit: 20
• Damn:64
• Suggestive Scenes