Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

35 reviews

kim_104's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Reading it was pretty challenging at first because as it's a fantasy book within a whole made up world system, it's pretty overwhelming with all the new creature names and the way "magic" works there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

zoe_archambault's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Really liked the general plot but felt it was a lot longer than it really needed to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, Bullying, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence and Blood

Minor: Vomit and Medical content

percivilious's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Kvothe is so Autistic, it's wonderful.

characters who I think are queer:
Bast
Simmons
Probably Kvothe
The Eolian owners, I thought they were hubbies at first

I want to give Kvothe a hug, this poor man has had such a hard time, his retirement plan didn't even work out the way he hoped.

as Patrick Rothfuss has said, the writing can be a tad juvenile at times but it does work since Kvothe is a child throughout this whole book, of course he'd freak out at being in close proximity with a girl.

I like Denna, I don't have much to say about her but I like her.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Blood, Alcohol, Violence, Classism, Grief, and Bullying

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Addiction, Drug use, and Misogyny

xjr's review

adventurous funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The writing is fantastic! Has a magical, medieval feel to it. Lots of witty quips and poetry-esque descriptions and thoughts. The song segments were fun too!

I really enjoyed the world building as well. The nods to how language works and interacts + the way rumors became stories with specs of truth was fascinating and imo accurate.

Be warned! This book is part of a series, of which this is the first book. One sequel is available and a side story about a minor character (idk if she becomes more prominent in the 2nd book) 

This book focuses on Kvothe's past and why he is the innkeeper he is today. A majority takes place in a frame narrative about the adventure stories told about him. Mostly:

his childhood, his time Tarbean, and his time at university

. Sparsely filled with romance, which imo was the slowest and most repetitive part and could've shaved a dozen pages off of the book. In the latter half I noticed a lot of repetitions. While it makes sense in the story and narrative wise, it's not enjoyable to read to me.

It doesn't work as a standalone book either as it ends with

most mysteries open and a cliffhanger that foreshadows things to come in the second book I assume

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Bullying, and Violence

Minor: Blood and Sexual harassment

The world similarly to us has a sexist attitude to women. The protagonist fights against this. The book however does a lot more tell than show as all the women are tools or ladies in distress for Kvothe to save even if he says they are otherwise.

vonny3492's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

This book is one of those books written by a man that sort of just forgot to include women? There is even a line from one of the characters that's like "there's been such a lack of women in this story" and then the story promptly is like what no women? There's ONE woman! With I think complete lack of insight into the irony. 

When they get to speak, especially the ONE woman, they aren't totally vapid and one dimensional, but mostly they are plot devices and manic pixie dream girls. You can tell the author is trying and even thinks he's doing a good job being pro-woman but he falls flat.

Frankly there are too many common phrases at the expense of sex workers...

He manages to somehow pull off being a very good writer who's obsessed with his own prose without being totally annoying, which is impressive. 

I will say overall I liked the book and thought it was engaging. And I think the author does a good job of sprinkling in the mystery and some fun parallel language use.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Sexism

Minor: Police brutality

darkefyres's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, and Child abuse

Minor: Religious bigotry

mulletapologist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, and Violence

peter7's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious relaxing sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Violence, and War

lcgordon's review against another edition

challenging funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Story-within-a-story setup, a bit self-aggrandizing by the main character (total gary stu) but ultimately it's one of those classic fantasy style books with solid worldbuilding and a good pace.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Gore

lunep's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Classism, Addiction, Blood, Gore, Police brutality, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Xenophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Sexism, and War

Graphic depictions of poverty and homelessness take up a significant portion of the story. Graphic description and discussion of giant spiders.