Brent Weeks Appreciation Thread

I noticed Brent Weeks' "Night Angel" trilogy at my local book store a few times and scoffed at the cover and ignored it.  Finally, I decided that it was dumb to literally judge a book by its cover, read the brief write-up on the back, thought "dark fantasy with assassins?  could be okay," and bought it.  Now I'm mid-way through the third book and loving them.  I can't find anyone else who's ever heard of the books though.  Am I the only person who's ever read them?  Is the cover just too douchey?

I've read the first book, it was entertaining. Fast-paced, rather action packed and it didn't have too shabby characterization. Doesn't bring anything new to the table, though (which isn't really a downside, but it's not an upside either), and the wetboys were so overpowered I actually felt bad for the grunts.

Either way, I enjoyed it enough to order the second book, and would have ordered the third if it wouldn't have delayed my order over Christmas.

>>1
I've read only the first so far and am of a somewhat similar opinion as >>2
I'm a fag for assassin/thief stories, though, so not surprising that I liked it. Wasn't really anything new, but enjoyable enough.

Although the mage vaporizing magical sword was lame - it felt too much like deus ex machina to me. I also hate prophecies in general, but at least that aspect wasn't written like the completely unbearable pretentious bullshit it so often is in fantasy.

Would also have liked it better if Neph had only played Rat to exploit him instead of him actually being the Godkings offspring and rising to power - totally opposed to him being described as an imbecile earlier (somewhat unbelievable that one such as the Godking would tolerate and even help inane heirs, especially considering his pursuit of immortality).

>>2
Yeah, I felt the same way.  The second book improves on things, though, and things pick up a bit.  I won't put a bunch of spoilers up, but if you enjoyed the first at all, you'll probably really like the second.