This review contains spoilers. You have been warned.
This book both surprised and disappointed me. I’m stil not sure how I feel about it, but when reading The Wise Man’s Fear I got the impression that Patrick Rothfuss took all these wonderful ideas about how he is going to change fantasy literature, and then proceeded to stuff his book with them without really thinking about the flow of the narrative or character development.
When reading these books it’s sometimes hard to remember that Kvothe is sixteen - the adventures he has are befitting of an older man. But he assumes...