Finished The Wise Man's Fear...
I have to say I'm really torn on this one. I really liked it. I also didn't like it. How do I square these things in my head?
I feel like 1/3 of the book went really far from the roots of what the story seemed to be about from the beginning. I'm not a big fan of the whole Kvothe: Sex God distraction.
I have this nagging suspicion that my enjoyment of the whole series is really going to come down to the ending and how well he ties up all the disparate threads that he's continued to leave hanging. It feels like I can't know how many of the pieces of this story are really important to the overall arch and I'm worried that a lot of it is going to end up just being fluff and unimportant, know what I mean? It's like the Lost of the fantasy literature genre. Sorry, having trouble putting my thoughts into words on this one.
Ah well, on to a second read through of the Shadowmarch books by Tad Williams.