Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Der Name des Windes by Patrick Rothfuss

54 reviews

aidareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

im gonna bite my arm off

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction and Drug use

ririslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Me ha gustado la forma en la que está narrado el libro, incluso si a veces se hace extremadamente lento.
El protagonista es un "héroe" [(bastante) impaciente] al que no le sale casi nada bien.

Creo que lo único que no me acaba de gustar es la visión de los personajes femeninos.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction

leonormsousa's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Would give it 4 stars but there were a few misogynistic parts that didn't sit well with me.
Will I read the sequel: likely but not a priority since the third book hasn't come out yet.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

madmadmaddymad's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Oh my god, it took me WAY too long to read this incredible book. I’m kicking myself for leaving this on my TBR for as long as I did. What an amazing, well crafted story. I particularly enjoyed the split perspective, with interludes in the tavern. 

I also have the hugest crush on Bast, woah. That final chapter was a whirl. He captured my heart way back when he first revealed himself as fae - and then he tore it into tiny pieces and taped them back together in letters that spelled “I heart Bast” when he used his full Fae form to be all threatening to the Chronicler. Also, do I ship Bast x the Chronicler? What? Shhh this book was so much fun but wow am I invested in the interlude side characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, and Death of parent

kiwi_of_serenity's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This book was fun, serious, fantastic, creative and it made me think. I was completely captured by the story of Kote the innkeeper and his loyal friend Bast before the entire thing refocused on Kvothe’s past. I genuinely like Kvothe so much, and the other characters are wonderful, too. I love that Kvothe’s school life is only part of his story, and that financial troubles are a major part if his life. I like the amount if mystery this book leaves is with in terms of which legends are true. And I love the abundance of little plotlines that each have their own  resolution- it feels like a story that is composed of many smaller stories, each entertaining on its own. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

rebeccarudisill's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book is so long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

kirstym25's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying and Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

gandalf_a's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

When I read a review saying that this book was really easy to read thanks to Rothfuss' writing style, despite how long it is, I was skeptical... I was wrong ! I really flew effortlessly through this story.
The characters and their dynamics are complex and overall very well done and Kvothe's narration is witty. The world and magic system are original and well developed while staying quite mysterious.
I really enjoyed the contrast between story and reality, Kvothe's (unreliable) legendary image as a hero versus his humain flaws... or at least the ones he lets us see in the story he weaves for the world to see. Indeed, he himself admits that he's always used and fed the rumors about him, so in the end, isn't this story the final one he crafts ?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Murder

nortsapa's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

this book really hasn’t aged well? the writing around poverty & music makes me feel like the author isn’t very familiar with the lived experiences of poor folk & musicians (“if you’ve never been xyz you wouldn’t understand” is said a lot) and it has a very j.j. abrams “mystery box” plot style. it prefers being totally unpredictable to having a flowing plot with foreshadowing and the like. many offhand phrases are repeated over and over again (take a shot every time “times being what they are” is said)

i don’t like school settings and i wasn’t really prepared for us to spend 75% of this book in a school, or to encounter quite so much patriarchy. another review says the protagonist is a mary sue and i very much agree.

there’s lots of different fictional races, which i presume is why people say this cast is diverse, but it’s more like there’s russians & jews, the french & italians, the british, and romani people. as a jew, i always feel off-put by kinds of oppression/microaggressions faced by some groups in here, and by the fact that there’s a ‘money race’ for lack of a better term.

at many points the book was a chore to get through, and i was disappointed by the lack of a clean ending. also, lots of grammar/spelling/math errors in my edition?

overall i won’t be recommending it to anyone myself, but it’s a genre staple and fun to talk about with friends. definitely check the content warnings area before embarking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

graphic depictions of whipping a child, pickup artistry, anti-sex work, timeskips

random_reader's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Alcohol