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The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

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ethias's review

5.0

This book did not rewrite me as a person as Name of the Wind did, but it was truly delightful and beautiful. Lovely. Thrilling.

kiaraliketiara's review

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adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

eleniphant's review

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adventurous reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.5

I was very conflicted bc Rothfuss is overall a very good writer. His sentences paint scenes so well, so many quotes hit where they need to, and I care for the characters and the world built. There’s so many interesting ideas explored-

But man… the way this book was long and we ended back where we started. And I usually don’t mind journey books but much of the time I was like what are we even doing.

I am not going to go into a vent about the characterization of the women, where they do have neat character blueprints but the execution of them lands so flat for me personally… I can never tell where Rothfuss is self aware and where he feeds into a fantasy of adult women throwing themselves at this 15/16 year old with rizz??! And just the way he writes all of them the amount of times I got the ick

I will be reading the next one because the plot hooks I desire seem left for that third book, he is preparing that slow game of payoff and feeding theories of the Chandrian and Denna and history- I enjoy sections that almost brought this up to a three for me again… but the amount of multiple slumps this book put me in and my frustration with its handling of women…

alanp's review

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5.0

I loved the second entry to the Kingkiller Chronicle series. Kvothe's relationship with Denna had me pulling my hair out at times, and the adventures were exciting and gripping. I really hope Rothfuss finishes this series as I love this story and its such a shame that there's no word on the third book (although, I've no idea how he intends on finishing this story with only one more book... maybe that's the issue).