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Pros

The name of the wind (notw) is one of the most compellingly, intriguingly-beautiful books that i have read in the last decade. Ignore the salty, poor reviews. The story contains so many well-crafted mysteries that you can enjoyably kill two or three y...  Read More

I was enthralled by the world created here, and the characters that were so beautifully fleshed out. The psychology for, and reasons in their personalities and tenancies is very realistic.



Cons

If the author had merely disappeared after the release of the 2nd book there would still be a fair chance of seeing book 3. Acquiring the 1st and/or 2nd books in merely an exercise in frustration on the part of the reader as the story will never be fi...  Read More

Life is too short. Oh, it is also interminably long. And long winded.

There is no plot or character arcs, just a random collection of scenes that happen to the same guy. No female character who isn't a * object, a prop for a male character's story arc, or both. An unreliable narrator only works well if there are some cl...  Read More

Patrick rothfuss is the latest in a series of fantasy writers who disappoint by telling only half of a great story. His "charity" world builders barely has any of the profits actually go to charity surprise surprise, there are twitter accounts that ca...  Read More

The author admits to having suffered from depression, and writer's block.

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Quality


The quality of the story line character development and world building is incredible


The book starts out with the retired hero protagonist running a taverninn


It feels very much like a sliceoflife story that sometimes flirts with the idea of digging into a narrative

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  • This product had a total of 25,002 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 30 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Patrick rothfussi finished the first and if that third book isnt out by the time i finish the second i will leave another review on the second one and beg you again


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I think this series is worth starting both because it seems that the third book may be getting close to release as of jan 22 and also because the story contains so many wellcrafted mysteries that you can enjoyably kill two or three years just rereading the books already published and trying to figure out what is going to happen in the next book


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If i had to describe patrick rothfuss’ series the kingkiller chronicle in just two words those words would be “beautiful” and “mysterious


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Notw is the first novel published by patrick rothfuss but seems to me to show none of the signs of the debut novel


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The legends of the world’s creation and past conflicts tie into current events and factions but only in the most tantalizingly confusing ways due to the unreliability of all the narrators who pass them on


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This is also not another stereotypical hero’s journey in which the chosenone tm must go off to fight the evil blah blah to save mumblemumble from the evil power of whatever


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Where tolkien seemingly created lotr et al

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