The Night Angel Trilogy: Disgust and Hope

Several themes appear and reappear throughout Brent Weeks’ dark fantasy trilogy, The Night Angel, that resonate within characters and story beats: loss, faith, greed, monsters and men, and destiny are just a few. Characters rarely exemplify a single theme or trait; most are molded by many of the themes that cross their paths. As the story allows for several character interactions to take place at any given time, sometimes a single interaction or moment will change the course of a character thematically. However, if there are two themes that are common throughout every single character in the series, it’s the themes of disgust and of hope.

Top 10 Favorite Video Games

I wouldn’t say I’m the most avid gamer in the world, but I do find myself often digging into a game for several hours at a time and not even realizing it. If a game is great, this is one of the easiest things to do without realizing. There’s few things better than getting immersed in the world of a game, or falling in love with some solid gameplay and just having a go at it. Video games provide an excellent resource for people to just hang out and have some fun, or take out some sort of frustration *cough From Software games cough*. And because I’ve been on a bit of a gaming kick recently, I decided there was little better time to talk about my ten favorite games of all time!

"Night Angel" vs "Lightbringer" Series

Perhaps it isn't fair to do this sort of "versus" thing for these two books. After all, the "Lightbringer" series has not yet finished, with the fourth and probably final novel, The Blood Mirror, due soon, whereas the "Night Angel" trilogy has wrapped, been put in an omnibus, given a prequel, and it's first novel, The Way of Shadows, turned to a graphic novel in adaptation.

Great Stories Need Great Villains

When my blog started up nearly two years ago, it seemed like there was a great focus on villainy, on the bad guys and how cool they are. While my idea that they are pretty darn great has not changed, the focus certainly has. I haven't been able to discuss themes and concepts in a while, moreover trends that have been happening in geek culture, or things on upcoming events.