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hannahgage01's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.75
sialia95's review against another edition
3.0
This book COULD'VE been great. Parts of it were! I loved the first 50 pages and wanted more, but things went downhill SO fast when we switch over to a recollection of the past. Far too much of this doorstopper is spent giving a painfully detailed account of a teenager repeatedly wiggling his way out of infuriatingly bad decisions by being magically good at everything. Somehow every chapter ends on the same tone of allusion (as in, he basically tells you what's going to happen) which may be resolved immediately, several unrelated chapters later, or...never, actually. That punchy list of feats in the blurb? Only one of them even happens in this book. Yet something about it kept pulling me along. A lot of sifting through chaff for genuinely delicious morsels.
This is very much a first book and I feel that Rothfuss' editors failed him by letting the story be spread so thin. His focus was in all the wrong places; the story constantly pulled me away from more interesting things to get back to the important business of what the boys had for lunch in week three of term two. If this series was complete I would consider continuing it despite all of this, but given the pace of this book, I don't imagine I'd feel any more satisfied after book two than I do now.
This is very much a first book and I feel that Rothfuss' editors failed him by letting the story be spread so thin. His focus was in all the wrong places; the story constantly pulled me away from more interesting things to get back to the important business of what the boys had for lunch in week three of term two. If this series was complete I would consider continuing it despite all of this, but given the pace of this book, I don't imagine I'd feel any more satisfied after book two than I do now.
mollymoll44's review against another edition
3.75
All these guys have been hyping up Name of the wind for so long and making me feel like some sort of poser fantasy imbecile for not reading it. Heralding it as the next dawn of fantasy coming to cleanse the earth of inferior literature. But it’s really just fine. It’s 90 chapters of the narrator describing himself as the strongest, smartest little boy who ever came into this world. Every woman is a different font of a young, gorgeous manic pixie dream girl with a giant bosom who desperately wants him. I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed this if I wasn’t reading it with my sister.
All in all though it did really grow on me. But it’s a chill long fantasy, nothing revolutionary.
All in all though it did really grow on me. But it’s a chill long fantasy, nothing revolutionary.
alialu's review against another edition
5.0
This short review will be as meaningful as the silence.
As a silence of three parts
This book is amazing
Kvothe is amazing
Patrick you're the best
THE END
(I'm planning to reread again this summer and I'll add my fourth reread thoughts)
As a silence of three parts
This book is amazing
Kvothe is amazing
Patrick you're the best
THE END
(I'm planning to reread again this summer and I'll add my fourth reread thoughts)
silversteampunk's review against another edition
1.0
HOW do people like this book? The main character, Kvothe, is the worst character I have ever read in any piece of adult fiction. He is a top notch Mary-Sue right up there with “Ebony Darkness Dementia Ravenway.” Except unlike Ebony he isn’t funny, and he doesn’t bring back fond memories of being an edgy middle-schooler. He just reads like a self-conscious man with no friends that you would find featured on the r/IamVerySmart, r/IamVeryBadass and r/QuitYourBullshit subreddits.
Sorry to sound crude, but the best way to sum up this book is some guy basically bragging about the size of his dick without ever actually mentioning his dick.
The book starts out with a mysterious innkeeper (Kvothe) slaying spooky spider-demons, and I was totally on board. That goes on for a couple chapters until the book decides to slam on the breaks as he decides to tell us his entire life story starting when he was like 5….
At 5 he knew several different languages, played the lute better than adults, and probably had an IQ of 300 or something ridiculous like that. Also keep in mind, this is all in first person. “As a child I knew many different languages” and “I wasn't like other children my age I was special” So yeah…. This gets old very quickly.
And we literally get his entire life story up until he’s a late teenager.
Chaste women turn into sluts for him, boys hate him because he’s so good at everything, and all his teachers either worship him because he is so gifted or they are jealous of him and hate him because he’s better at everything than they are. I think you pretty much get the idea. This book is around 90 chapters long too if I remember correctly. 90 chapters of this.
It sucks because I was legitimately interested in the worldbuilding and the mysteries that were introduced in the beginning of the story. His parents are killed by these cryptic entities/creatures called the Chandrian that kill anyone who know even small pieces of lore about them. And I was very genuinely interested in this part of the story, but the story brought this up rarely. By the end of the book, it didn’t really answer any of the questions brought up in the beginning. The book was much more focused on the drama surrounding Kvothe’s lovelife and school life.
Sorry to sound crude, but the best way to sum up this book is some guy basically bragging about the size of his dick without ever actually mentioning his dick.
The book starts out with a mysterious innkeeper (Kvothe) slaying spooky spider-demons, and I was totally on board. That goes on for a couple chapters until the book decides to slam on the breaks as he decides to tell us his entire life story starting when he was like 5….
At 5 he knew several different languages, played the lute better than adults, and probably had an IQ of 300 or something ridiculous like that. Also keep in mind, this is all in first person. “As a child I knew many different languages” and “I wasn't like other children my age I was special” So yeah…. This gets old very quickly.
And we literally get his entire life story up until he’s a late teenager.
Chaste women turn into sluts for him, boys hate him because he’s so good at everything, and all his teachers either worship him because he is so gifted or they are jealous of him and hate him because he’s better at everything than they are. I think you pretty much get the idea. This book is around 90 chapters long too if I remember correctly. 90 chapters of this.
It sucks because I was legitimately interested in the worldbuilding and the mysteries that were introduced in the beginning of the story. His parents are killed by these cryptic entities/creatures called the Chandrian that kill anyone who know even small pieces of lore about them. And I was very genuinely interested in this part of the story, but the story brought this up rarely. By the end of the book, it didn’t really answer any of the questions brought up in the beginning. The book was much more focused on the drama surrounding Kvothe’s lovelife and school life.
angushealy's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
tonund's review against another edition
medium-paced
4.25
Fikk igjen ikke med meg alt, men får en følelse at jeg liker den veldig godt. Må nok lese den fysisk og vil få med meg mer. Rangerer den etter at jeg ikke synes det var et ork å høre på og det jeg tror jeg hadde gitt den hadde jeg lest den fysisk. Har god tid da bok 3 nok ikke kommer ut på en stund.
winstonxmalone's review against another edition
4.0
Fantastic read! I struggled in the middle for awhile, but the ending was worth it. Can't wait to read "The Wise Man's Fear".
kistlkd's review against another edition
4.0
I loved this story, but it takes a good portion of the book to really get hooked. Such a unique story telling experience. Amazingly intricate world
novatrigger's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0