Nathan Ouellette Ouellette itibaren Metut, South Malinau, Malinau Regency, North Kalimantan, Endonezya itibaren Metut, South Malinau, Malinau Regency, North Kalimantan, Endonezya

Slow to start for me, but heck it's 650 pages so I should expect that I suppose. Also I'm not sold on novels where we've already met the narrator/protagonist and he's telling us about his story. Overall I enjoyed this novel. We've been here before but always enjoy a good training phase in a hero's development. My main complaint is the degree of back story required in the world building. These long 'stories' within the story (which is already a story within a story) really interrupt pacing for me and I wish they could have been edited to a page each from about ten. I'm sure the reason why we began with 'Kote' rather than 'Kvothe' will play out, but I still don't like the narrative device Rothfuss is employing in the narrator. The writing is five stars and I certainly appreciate the well defined system of magic, so five stars it is.

Sure to please any Binchy fan -- like me.

Some parts are excellent...