• Title: The Wise Man’s Fear
• Author: Patrick Rothfuss
• Genre/Subject: Epic fantasy
• Publisher: Daw
• Publication Date: 2011
• Start date: 8/8/2021
• Finish date: 8/19/2021

Review:

Given enough time I can find fault with any book. This one didn’t take much time to display its faults.

• Too long…
• Not long enough…
• Too long for a single book and so obviously leading towards an inevitable sequel. Middle book syndrome, see also The Two Towers. Ents suck.

The carefully crafted university narrative comes to a crashing halt, hero-dude takes a gap year to go on a D&D quest with a merry band of adventurers.

Quest completed he heads off to a Shaolin style school to become a super-ninja. After only two months and innumerable hookups with female ninjas he resumes the university narrative.

I’ll read the sequel, but I can wait.