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A review by sialia95
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
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.