Perfect Shadow by Brent Weeks
Very short and I've nothing much to add beyond his past novels that I loved. One thing I guess, it's got a depth to it that other books just don't. All that talk about the ka'kari. The level of detail about architechture. And here Durzo Blint's past lives that we go back to occasionally. I'm comparing it all to The Kinshield Legacy by KC May which I also just read that doesn't have that same depth.

Truthfully Kinshield got more of an emotional response from me. But then it tantalizes so well. It holds back. It teases with Gavin Kinshield not wanting to be king but we all know he'll become king. In some ways it's really not a good novel. The bad guy is just ...empty, dorky. Not three dimensional enough.

Depth. I think it can even extend to names. Gavin isn't a very good name. Gaelan is. Durzo Blint is decent.

Perfect Shadow goes back to the life of Durzo Blint who becomes the master of... the Night Angel trilogy guy, whatever his name was. It's very short.

The Kinshield Legacy is about a guy who does something similar to pulling a sword out of a rock in order to become king. But it's 5 stones and he does so one by one over the course of the story. And he doesn't want to be king because he's that good of a guy. He is still a bit cartoon charaterish. Little bit too stupid in some ways. Not a bad story but just doesn't have the depth.