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The Wise Man’s Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
2011, 994
Fiction
The Wise Man’s Fear is the second in a trilogy of an immensely detailed world. It chronicles the coming of age of young Kvothe as he creates a name for himself, weaving his own reputation like one of his songs, and blundering headfirst into questionable and dangerous situations that he shouldn’t have made it out of.
But he does – because he’s telling the story like an old man on his death bed would – if you went to your death bed in your twenties.
This is a long book, which while it is action packed, is slowly paced. It’s two books in one, the present day of an older, worn and tired Kvothe and the young, headstrong, not altogether the most cautious of teenage boys who became a living legend.
Woven together like cloth, the two stories complement each other while they bring out the big questions: How has he survived all that he has? What else happened to make him hide away as a shopkeeper, nameless in a nameless town?
And when did he meet the demon, Bast?
Good thing there will be another, likely near 1,000 page, book to answer those questions.
