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I loved his first two books, but this is dire. There's absolutely no plot, it's just ~150 pages of a girl running around in the sewers doing Feng Shui and kissing inanimate objects.

Update: I am going to leave my earlier rant about Rothfuss below, since it received so much commentary — both positive and negative. Here I will leave my thoughts on the novella, now having read it. There is no way I can review this without it looking like I am just piling on and confirming what I ra Leggi tutto

I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/petrikleo 4.5/5 starsAtmospheric, bizarre, and absolutely enchanting. Before you start reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things , please make sure you read the author’s foreword first and set your expectations accordingly. Rothfuss Leggi tutto

The Slow Regard of Silent Things centers on Auri (Kvothe does not appear) after The Name of the Wind. Her life is a solitary one but full of wonder. This book is like taking the long way home, taking a moment to pause, taking a moment to feel instead of constantly moving, moving, moving. Rothfuss has Leggi tutto

I fully applaud authors following their vision and writing for themselves. And on this occasion it just happened to be clear to me that the author was not also, by happy happenstance, writing for me. I knew this story was going to be "non traditional" but I thought I would enjoy it more than I did. I Leggi tutto

Rothfuss's new novella, "Things Are Picked Up And Then Set Down Elsewhere" certainly lives up to its title. If you have a sexual fetish for descriptions of things moved from one place to another look out because Christmas has come fucking early. Now look- I'm as hardcore a Rothfuss Partisan as they c Leggi tutto

“People are going to read this and be pissed.” -Patrick Rothfuss (2014) Well Pat was right. People are pissed. I’m pissed. I’ve been warned about this, several times in fact. I’ve been told that it's terrible. I’ve been told that it has no plot or any string of story. I’ve been told that it is utt Leggi tutto

note - the title alone gets five stars. it is one of the most pleasant sounding and more meaningful titles i have ever come across. i was only going to rate this 3 or 4 stars. its intriguing and follows a minor character from the main series that i was interested in getting to know better, but this n Leggi tutto

”Under the surface, something brushed against her. Something slick and heavy pressed its moving weight against her leg. It did not bother her. Whatever it was, it was in its proper place and so was she. Things were just as they should be.” Well, if I would have been Auri I probably most certainly wou Leggi tutto