This is the most brilliant first fantasy novel that DAW president Elizabeth Wollheim says she read, and as I have probably read way less fantasy than Elizabeth Wollheim, it stands to reason that it is the most brilliant first fantasy novel I've read too. This is a whopper of a book. It's almost 900 pages long.Patrick Rothfuss has very few of the problems that plague most writers of fantasy in their first books. I completely lost myself in the book for the first 600 pages or so. One slight problem was that the final quarter of the book seemed overlong. There are minute happenings that add to the overall detail of the book and in the first three quarters they fit right in. The last few hundred pages are occupied with the hero trying to hunt a mysterious 'dragon' and that's where the story got bogged down slightly.
I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the next part of the trilogy this year, and hope that Rothfuss has not lost his touch.
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