tgt reviewed The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day 2)
Review of 'The Wise Man’s Fear' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Scattered thoughts:
- The Vintas section (around 600 pages) dragged on horribly. Kvothe became even more insufferable after his encounter with Felurian. Few characters were particularly interesting and the work with the Maer did little to solve any mysteries. Some progress would be nice... Training with the Adem was similarly stretched out. Every character I've grown attached to is at the university, which made things even worse. Realising how long this part was makes me feel my rating may be overly generous.
- I'm sick of Denna. The mystery surrounding her is interesting, but her encounters with Kvothe and his subsequent thoughts are not.
- I'm pretty bored with the Ambrose rivalry.
- Whilst I don't want every mystery wrapped up quickly I'd like some progress. Rather than solving some mysteries and uncovering others, it feels like mysteries are just being piled up. Perhaps I've just forgotten the more minor …
- The Vintas section (around 600 pages) dragged on horribly. Kvothe became even more insufferable after his encounter with Felurian. Few characters were particularly interesting and the work with the Maer did little to solve any mysteries. Some progress would be nice... Training with the Adem was similarly stretched out. Every character I've grown attached to is at the university, which made things even worse. Realising how long this part was makes me feel my rating may be overly generous.
- I'm sick of Denna. The mystery surrounding her is interesting, but her encounters with Kvothe and his subsequent thoughts are not.
- I'm pretty bored with the Ambrose rivalry.
- Whilst I don't want every mystery wrapped up quickly I'd like some progress. Rather than solving some mysteries and uncovering others, it feels like mysteries are just being piled up. Perhaps I've just forgotten the more minor revelations. There's so much left to reveal that either many mysteries will be left unsolved in the next book or they'll be dumped on us. I suppose books after the three days would solve this problem. Alternativey, I suppose the mysteries might all link up so neatly that they can't really be revealed too far apart... (Loeclos box, four-plate door, Denna's patron, Chandrian, Denna, the moon, Bredon, Amyr, and on and on)
- I find every scene with Auri, Elodin, Devi or Sim/Wil enjoyable. There're probably other characters I enjoy, but they spring to mind.
