{"id":33,"date":"2004-07-02T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=33"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:27:02","slug":"the-legend-of-nightfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/33","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Nightfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Legend of Nightfall<\/i> Mickey Zucker Reichert<\/p>\n<p>Nightfall, the legendary assassin, has taken his name from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smacdonald.com\/lyrics\/nightfall.html\">children&#8217;s song<\/a> that warns about the danger of the night. A master of disguise, he survives by his wits, but survives primarily, despite is small size, because of his natural talent. A talent coveted by sorcerers who methods of extracting natural talents leaves much to be desired. <\/p>\n<p>On the other end of the spectrum is Prince Edward of Alyndar, who strives to fight justice by confronting it head on, which causes nothing but trouble for his father, especially when Ned accidentally kills a man while confronting injustice.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very good book, although I remembered as being somehow different. The story is very good, the characters are very good, my only complaint is that I think the ending is a bit too pat. But you&#8217;ll have that sometimes, and in general it doesn&#8217;t take away from an otherwise excellent book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legend of Nightfall Mickey Zucker Reichert Nightfall, the legendary assassin, has taken his name from the children&#8217;s song that warns about the danger of the night. A master of disguise, he survives by his wits, but survives primarily, despite is small size, because of his natural talent. A talent coveted by sorcerers who methods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-paper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/122","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":0},"title":"Assassin Fantastic","author":"Michelle","date":"September 12, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Assassin Fantastic (2001) edited by Martin H. 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The first story,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/anthology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2914,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2914","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":3},"title":"The Legend of Eli Monpress: The Spirit Rebellion","author":"Michelle","date":"April 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Legend of Eli Monpress: The Spirit Rebellion (2010) Rachel Aaron This is the second book in The Legend of Eli Monpress. 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Instead, we see that those who are supposed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Legend-Eli-Monpress.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3671,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3671","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":5},"title":"The Rake to Ruin Her","author":"Michelle","date":"March 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Rake to Ruin Her (2013) Julia Justiss This is a straight up historical romance (with boinking) which hasn't been anything I've particularly liked in the past, but after enjoying Darlene Marshall's Sea Change, I thought I'd give it a try, since it was relatively inexpensive. So. 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