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A review by spriinkl
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
2.0
Not sure I'm really invested in the trilogy any more - it has become a love-hate relationship between me and the author. I wanted to yell at Kvothe to leave his crazy love interest alone and just let her be crazy all by herself. I'm sick to death of her and her minor emotional abuse of everyone. Also not too keen on how Rothfuss keeps explaining how awesome our little Kvothe is even though he's 16 or 17. It's just... tiring. Even the sex (mountains of Kvothe's predictably awesome sex) just gets boring after the 50th mention.
The last expedition and introduction of a new society was intriguing, though. Clunky, but interesting and vibrant.
Still really hating the interruptions in the story for a story about telling the story (sometimes involving someone telling the story of someone else TELLING A STORY - I was a little blown away that he did that to me).
I understand that Rothfuss wanted to create a book that had more than enough room to luxuriate in its detail and length, but at some point, you've gotta get an editor.
The last expedition and introduction of a new society was intriguing, though. Clunky, but interesting and vibrant.
Still really hating the interruptions in the story for a story about telling the story (sometimes involving someone telling the story of someone else TELLING A STORY - I was a little blown away that he did that to me).
I understand that Rothfuss wanted to create a book that had more than enough room to luxuriate in its detail and length, but at some point, you've gotta get an editor.