The Name of the Wind

Some of this was quite good. I quite liked large parts of the first half, for instance.

Some of it felt like endless RPG side quests. I didn't really want a rehash of that time I had to play Lute-Hero to earn cash in Fable, but boy is that what I got.

As a character, Kvothe was often insufferable, and the end of the book dragged on for what felt like forever. The climax sort of just... happened, with no build-up. It was very strange.

I understand the third book is plausibly never happening, so I'm not particularly interested in reading the second at the moment. We'll have to see.