This was a decent book. It had a lot of action. Brent Weeks is great at writing actions scenes and the last 100 pages were especially intense and high stakes.

There were a few issues though. I am not huge on worldbuilding. As in, all I need for a world is the minimum info plus some interesting tidbits about the culture, history, etc. However, The Way of Shadows had so little worldbuilding that I found myself wanting a lot more. The history and "religion" are very vague and present day circumstances are hard to understand because of that. The side story with Dorian, Feir, and Solon is especially suffering because of this.

I also felt like the characters kind of came off flat at times. There wasn't much character development and when there was it felt forced. Although the characters were all cool and BA, there didnt seem to be much besides that. I couldn't really connect or care too much about the characters. I also think it didnt help that there were a few significant time jumps that took me out of the story.

All in all a decent story and a great premise, but it could have been executed much better. Not sure if I will continue the series or not.