The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, #2)

by Patrick Rothfuss

[Amber (The Literary Phoenix)]

Right off, while The Wise Man's Fear isn't as good as The Name of the Wind, it's still entrancing. I LOVE Rothfuss's storytelling. His world building is incredible, and since Kvothe is on the road again, we get to see so much of the world and different cultures and peoples. The world itself continues to impress.

At the end of The Name of the Wind, the plot followed Kvothe's vengeance quest to find the Chandrian. Even when he adventures seemed disconnected, the Chandrian tied it all together. In the second novel, it doesn't feel like Kvothe is looking that hard. He's switched tactics, but the depth of his search is a single missed encounter, a lot of unsuccessful dialogue, and wandering. If Rothfuss's writing wasn't so clever and his world gorgeous, I would have lost interest.

But. The worldbuilding is incredible. The pacing is trying, all my favorite characters were absent for 60% of the book... but I didn't put it down. I wasn't even tempted.

This is such a long book, but between the worldbuilding and my unanswered questions and the excellent narration by Nick Podehl, I'll be here for Doors of Stone when it's released.