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El nombre del viento / The Name Of The Wind: Primer dia / Day One by Patrick Rothfuss, Patrick Rothfuss

10 reviews

dithorba's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The actual prose in this book is absolutely lovely, and I can not stress that enough. The issue is the main character. I'm genuinely unsure if this book sticks to its own theme, and maybe that's the point. Kvothe is equal parts too gifted but also hampered by his own flaws, and because he is such a sweet talker it's not really clear when or how he might be lying in conveying his story.

Because Bast is doing his best to keep Kvothe remembering the best parts of himself, maybe Kvothe is trying to lie to himself. It would make for an interesting character clash that for all of Bast's desire to free Kvothe of his mask, he adopts another.

I'm not a fan of how this book handles its women. The sporadic references to

sexual assault are treated so matter of factly as an unfortunate part of the world really rub me wrong.

Some characters are flirts and some of them get the "boys will be boys" treatment, while some are more aware of horrific power imbalances so they get the "that's an asshole."

The book is overall good but I am really conflicted about how to treat its own theme.

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keksspion's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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cmbossy's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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xandra1412's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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nortsapa's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

this book really hasn’t aged well? the writing around poverty & music makes me feel like the author isn’t very familiar with the lived experiences of poor folk & musicians (“if you’ve never been xyz you wouldn’t understand” is said a lot) and it has a very j.j. abrams “mystery box” plot style. it prefers being totally unpredictable to having a flowing plot with foreshadowing and the like. many offhand phrases are repeated over and over again (take a shot every time “times being what they are” is said)

i don’t like school settings and i wasn’t really prepared for us to spend 75% of this book in a school, or to encounter quite so much patriarchy. another review says the protagonist is a mary sue and i very much agree.

there’s lots of different fictional races, which i presume is why people say this cast is diverse, but it’s more like there’s russians & jews, the french & italians, the british, and romani people. as a jew, i always feel off-put by kinds of oppression/microaggressions faced by some groups in here, and by the fact that there’s a ‘money race’ for lack of a better term.

at many points the book was a chore to get through, and i was disappointed by the lack of a clean ending. also, lots of grammar/spelling/math errors in my edition?

overall i won’t be recommending it to anyone myself, but it’s a genre staple and fun to talk about with friends. definitely check the content warnings area before embarking.

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midnightcomets's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 50%

Started for epic fantasy, nice world-building, and magic, stopped because I hate being inside Kvothe's head and everything he utters makes me want to punch him.

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