Dawn of Assassins: Book 1 of the assassin fantasy series

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In general, they commented that with so many lead characters, it was hard for them to connect with more than one or two.

It makes it a lot easier to find what you’re looking for, even if the name you eventually find isn’t on the list. Maybe something sparks an idea in your head that leads you down a thought process that finally takes you to the perfect name? A quiet child, Moriko is forced into a monastic system she despises. Torn from her family and the forest she grew up in, she must fight to learn the skills she’ll need to survive her tutelage under the realm’s most dangerous assassin.

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Readers who didn’t rate The Way of Shadowshighly commented that they thought Weeks’ use of familiar character types made the characters too similar to other fantasy stories. When I first began writing the book, the Fool had exactly one sentence in the outline. But as he came more and more into the story, whether I wanted him there or not, it affected the plot and got woven through it until he was one of the major characters. He became a driving force that complicated the plot, had his own agenda,” she says. “He’s the wild card.”

He is the Old Man of the Mountain’s greatest weapon over the warring factions of the Moslem world. A single man. A lone Assassin. The one they call the Emir of the Knife…

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I think it’s because they are ridiculously unique sounding, and aren’t ordinary names, even if there are popular historical figures and celebrities (like Zayn Malik, or Dante Alighieri who wrote The Divine Comedy) that have those names. Not everyone enjoyed Mistborn. These readers said that while the world-building impressed them, they thought the story was slow. The crew’s plans proceed in a rather straightforward manner, while critics hoped for more conflict or complications.