A review by ostrava
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
2.0
I've decided to accept the mediocrity of Rothfuss as an author based on his incapacity to deliver a ending to a story that's all but reliant on fulfilled promises to be worth a damn and move on with my life.
The sex stuff is embarrassing. It was back then and it's still now. I don't mind authors getting lost in their kinks and weird things every once in a while, hey, it happens! But Rothfuss jumped the shark. Let's call it what it is.
The inability to organize the mess the trilogy was starting to become towards the end had also been apparent to me all these years. Looking back, I was always too benign with it, as self-aware as I was of its shortcomings.
What I'm truly baffled by now is by the fact that this will always be it. The Kingkiller Chronicle is a story without catharsis and a literary failure. Even if a third book where to happen I wouldn't want it.
The sex stuff is embarrassing. It was back then and it's still now. I don't mind authors getting lost in their kinks and weird things every once in a while, hey, it happens! But Rothfuss jumped the shark. Let's call it what it is.
The inability to organize the mess the trilogy was starting to become towards the end had also been apparent to me all these years. Looking back, I was always too benign with it, as self-aware as I was of its shortcomings.
What I'm truly baffled by now is by the fact that this will always be it. The Kingkiller Chronicle is a story without catharsis and a literary failure. Even if a third book where to happen I wouldn't want it.