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A review by a_chickletz
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
3.0
Everyone. Every. One. Shits bricks over this book and its sequel. I tried reading this book once before but it just didn't grab me. I have no idea if my mind was elsewhere or I just wasn't feeling it. I stopped it and focused on other books.
Now I've returned to it because they're going to make it into a show. So, I spent some time reading it.
Now that I've read it?
I got issues with this book. It's one huge narrative of literally nothing. Sure, it started out awesome, promising even! I mean, I was watching a hero in the making! Sure I didn't like him and I thought his endless flaunting of his talents was annoying but maybe this was him now... then the good stuff would kick in, right?
No. It didn't.
Yet, damn me, I'm too invested and too interested in the world/the story to care. Can you like a story but not like the main character. I feel that's what's going on here. So will book two be better? Will it be the book I want it to be? Time will tell. If he plans on bringing the villain into the third book I'm going to be a little miffed.
Now I've returned to it because they're going to make it into a show. So, I spent some time reading it.
Now that I've read it?
I got issues with this book. It's one huge narrative of literally nothing. Sure, it started out awesome, promising even! I mean, I was watching a hero in the making! Sure I didn't like him and I thought his endless flaunting of his talents was annoying but maybe this was him now... then the good stuff would kick in, right?
No. It didn't.
Yet, damn me, I'm too invested and too interested in the world/the story to care. Can you like a story but not like the main character. I feel that's what's going on here. So will book two be better? Will it be the book I want it to be? Time will tell. If he plans on bringing the villain into the third book I'm going to be a little miffed.