A review by rainydaycookies
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Did not finish book. Stopped at 42%.
This book feels like it was written by a Reddit dude. Seriously. Given the rave reviews I thought this would be a good fantasy book. Instead I was met with a male Mary Sue. The MC is the most specialist boy and everyone thinks he’s great and the people that don’t are assholes. He’s the smartest, everybody is attracted to him, he’s so pretty, etc. There’s an “and everybody clapped moment” and I rolled my eyes so hard they about fell out of my head. The MC also talks really weird about any female characters, of which there are barely any. Female characters apparently only exist to be “surprisingly attractive” to the main character or in some other service. I tried to push myself to continue reading this book but I found I wasn’t invested in reading about the most specialist boy and the multiple plot lines that go nowhere. 
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