The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me. So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view—a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man’s Fear, Day...
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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me. So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view—a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man’s Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00475AYJQ
Publish date: 2011-03-01
Publisher: DAW
Pages no: 1007
Edition language: English
I got sucked in by book one in this series, and for a while, I was sure book 2 was going to deliver more of the same. The beautiful prose, the questions of different people's interests clashing and combining in various ways to create a non-centralized and shifting plot focus. And I can understand wh...
Now THIS is a story!For all who love epic fantasy...The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear must be the next books you pick up. I won't go into details--I did that when I reviewed the first book. If you're reading this, my assumption is that you want to know if the second book is worth your tim...
I don't really know what to say about this book. One the one hand, I always enjoyed myself while reading it, but on the other I recognize that it is flawed. The main flaw, imo, isn't in Rothfuss's ideas, but in the need to spend 100 pages on any one of them. Faelurian wasn't a terrible idea, but ...