Balise reviewed The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a …
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4 stars
This is possibly the weirdest thing I've read in a long while. It's a book about a single character (Auri, who we met in Kingkiller Chronicle), who lives in the Underworld, and to whom nothing essentially happens. In the postface, Rothfuss describes it as a "150-page vignette", and it's quite a good description. It's a very "contemplative" read, I kind of want to call it a children book for adults. And it very pretty, and it's a nice change.