captainozone's review against another edition
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
3.25
jesskris's review against another edition
dark
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
knp4597's review against another edition
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Pretty sure this is a children’s book . . .
lheto's review
3.0
This book describes a week of Auri's life. It's interesting to see things from her perspective.
doctabird's review
3.0
It's an odd, unconventional "story." This novel doesn't follow any conventional story structure. Even though I knew that going in, I still wasn't prepared for how un-story-like it was. Despite all that, Rothfuss has an incredible way with words.
adam_wy's review
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Just kept asking myself why this had been written. Rothfuss took an enigmatic character and tried to take away some of the mystery while not wanting to ruin that this was a character we should accept as is. The illustrations gave a very immature impression of the target audience.
jbmorgan86's review
4.0
In the afterword, Rothfuss says that The Slow Regard of Silent Things "doesn't do the things that that a story is supposed to do . . . A story should have dialogue, action, conflict. A story should have more than one character." The closest thing to a plot in Slow Regard is a character making soap.
As strange as the story is, it is beautiful in a strange way. Rothfuss abandons Kvothe's voice of realism and grit and takes up the eccentric, poetic, and damaged voice of Auri. Rothfuss admits that Auri's voice, in a way, is his voice. As a lover of words, I appreciate so much of the playful, Lewis Carroll-like language in the novella:
"Poor thing. To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken. Audi nodded and lay her hand gently on the gear's smooth face consolingly."
"burning days were flicker some. Too frangible by half. They were not good days for doing."
"the yellow flame helped warm the room without filling it with frantic shadows clawing at the walls, all jerk and judder."
"It smelled of hot, of hearth, of earth, of breath."
"It was a storm of autumn apples, age, and anger."
As Rothfuss warns in the introduction, this is a strange story. Don't expect this to be another Kvothe story. However, it is definitely worth the read.
As strange as the story is, it is beautiful in a strange way. Rothfuss abandons Kvothe's voice of realism and grit and takes up the eccentric, poetic, and damaged voice of Auri. Rothfuss admits that Auri's voice, in a way, is his voice. As a lover of words, I appreciate so much of the playful, Lewis Carroll-like language in the novella:
"Poor thing. To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken. Audi nodded and lay her hand gently on the gear's smooth face consolingly."
"burning days were flicker some. Too frangible by half. They were not good days for doing."
"the yellow flame helped warm the room without filling it with frantic shadows clawing at the walls, all jerk and judder."
"It smelled of hot, of hearth, of earth, of breath."
"It was a storm of autumn apples, age, and anger."
As Rothfuss warns in the introduction, this is a strange story. Don't expect this to be another Kvothe story. However, it is definitely worth the read.