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Oh dear God I want to kill Kvothe.
I don’t want him to die. I want to kill him.
I would like to excise him from this book. Could I possibly get a Kvothe-less version of The Wise Man’s Fear? Is that a thing? Would that work? It would hopefully be better than this.
I’m twitching, a little, because of course, back in my review of The Name of the Wind, I praised…
My, my, Patrick Rothfuss, aren’t we a little defensive about this book?
First you include a brief foreword, in which you warn us against buying this book, because this book is different. And fair enough. It’s centred on Auri, a minor character from your series, and one who is rather odd. The story itself is bound to be odd, as you warn us.
But then you add an afterword, in which you feel the need…
There's more to epic fantasy than sword fighting and magical duels. Patrick Rothfuss seems to know this, and that's really the best way I can think to praise The Name of the Wind.
Since this is a story about a single man, it seems appropriate to start my review by talking about him as a character. A man of many names, Kvothe first appears as an innocuous innkeeper in a small town. He's hiding,…