Kingkiller Chronicle Patrick Rothfuss Collection 3 Books Set (The Wise Man's Fear, The Slow Regard of Silent Things, The Name of the Wind) Paperback – 1 Jan. 2017

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Some of the best fantasy writing I have ever read

Absolutely loved this series, highly recommend!

This being marketed as a '3 books collection set', I foolishly assumed it was the trilogy. This was naïve, as Rothfuss still hasn't actually written the third book in the series, the 3rd book in this set is a strange little short story. The main two books are really great, I just hope eventually that he will write the 3rd part of the story!

Got these in the sale for £11, which is amazing! Aruevd well packaged, the books are a little wavy from the tight plastic sealing but nothing to be concerned about

These book are so very well written. I really struggled to move on after reading these as everything paled in comparison .. but if you do decide to read them then check out Micheal j Sullivan afterwards the ryiria chronicles well written books also

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I finished my second Patrick Rothfuss book last night, well after midnight as I could not put it down. I gave a little sob on the last page, knowing that the story may never be finished, as he has not, in nine years, produced the third book.I have never read a book like it. Every word was considered, every sentence perfectly judged, every paragraph a work of art. His similes were astounding, his poetry and song superb, his imagination boundless and original. So many surprises, like when, halfway through a chapter, I realised the protagonists were speaking in rhyming couplets! So many echoes, like recurring motifs in a symphony, but in such long books it was hard to place them; you just knew they were there in the back of your mind. For books about magic and fae, they wove a spell.But. As books, they fell short. There was a plot, of sorts, outlined in the first few chapters of book 1 - boy sees his family and friends destroyed by strange beings and sets out to become a powerful mage in order to get his revenge. But this gets set to one side. We see the powerful beings once, maybe twice in the 1500 pages of the two books. The story becomes the journey, with many diversions along the way. There is plenty of action - but often completely random and sometimes dismissed, like “I was late by three days because I was shipwrecked and robbed!” There is lots to fascinate, plenty to provoke thought and an overarching sense of wonder through the two books. But there is not a story. One character, seemingly a fae who is bound to the hero, for example, is never explained, never given his back story. And with a third book missing, we never get answers to so many questions. Personally I think it would take more than one more book in this style to drive the story forward and resolve everything. But maybe resolution was never the point. Maybe the books were just an excuse to tell some beautiful stories, beautifully. They certainly kept my mind away from the ugliness of our world for many hours. Thanks, Patrick.