A review by bigdreamsandwildthings
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

3.0

FINALLY. This book felt like climbing a mountain. At first I was so excited, so pumped to get back into this world and catch up with the characters. Still feeling good a quarter of the way through, but losing steam halfway. An extra burst of excitement about three quarters through, and then the last 100 pages were just a sprint to get it over with. Overall, I’d say this did NOT need to be this long. More happens than I expected, but it’s all so arduously long-winded that I lost interest. I enjoy Kvothe and his superiority complex, and Rothfuss’s world is fun. However he can’t write women to save his life even though there’s time spent in a matriarchal society thrown in here (for good measure? To up his page count? Who knows at this point). Denna is a major pain in the ass who I don’t appreciate as a character AT ALL. And really I just don’t know if the continuing mystery is worth the wait for the third book, if it ever even gets published. Will I even remember this book by then? I know I won’t be rereading it, in any case. This was a solid middle-of-the-road read. I would’ve liked it more if it halved its page count.