The Wise Man's Fear

3.5/5
This is going to be a somewhat confusing review. In some aspects TWMF was a bit of letdown. It still was a book that I couldn't putdown and that is because rothfuss writes about Kvothe with such narrative mastery that you're willing to forget your complaints.
This book doesn't get to the meat of the matter at all. It meanders so much that you want to leave the tangents that the author is on and move to a more interesting part. The existence of these parts is fine but why they took up so much of the books is not.
This book was really thick in the parts that I didn't care about and thin in the parts that I actually did.
I don't want to be too harsh on my valid complaints. I still found the book endearing. I still enjoyed it. The quality of writing and world building is still there. The pacing and some story decisions are odd but I suspect book 3 is supposed to explain that (if it ever comes out) .