by Patrick Rothfuss, 993 pages
For an excellent, detailed review, please see Jenny E's review on this same blog.
I have listened to both The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. That's 36 cds for Wise Man's Fear alone! So Kvothe and I have spent a lot of time together in recent weeks. Though Kvothe didn't know I was there (the table to the right of the main hearth of the Inn: that apple pie does smell tasty!) I consider the time I listened to the innkeeper's tale very well-spent.
Certainly, sometimes I did roll my eyes back in my hidden corner. Out looking for Dinna again? (Oh, Kvothe, forever she will be breaking your heart!) And yes, Grasshopper, your own time with Tempi, the amusing but lethal Adem mercenary, did stretch on a bit too long. But Kvothe kept me enthralled through a thousand pages of adventure, enchantment and great peril. I am already looking forward to my next visit to the Waystone Inn.
While George R R Martin has been getting a great deal of press recently with the long awaited arrival of his next installment of A Song of Ice and Fire, A Dance With Dragons, IMHO he is not the hottest fantasy writer in America. Just based on his first two novels, I think Patrick Rothfuss should be.
Hee! Looking at your list there, I think every eye-roll (yours and mine, both) was attributable to Kvothe's hormones getting the better of him. Silly boy. *sigh*
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