The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Series: The Kingkiller Chronicle (Book #2.5 of 3)
Genre: Fantasy, High Fantasy
Pages: 159 pages (UK paperback edition)
Published: 28th October 2014 by Gollancz (UK) & 28th October 2014 by DAW (US)
Atmospheric, bizarre, and absolutely enchanting.
Before you start reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things, please make sure you read the author’s foreword first and set your expectations accordingly. Rothfuss has mentioned it himself, this is a different kind of storytelling from his main series, and we won’t get a continuation to Kvothe’s story here; I didn’t listen to his advice on my first read, and it indeed stopped me from enjoying the novella to its fullest potential. I expected something different, found myself disappointed, and I also made the mistake of rushing through the novella on my first read because I decided to read it in the middle of reading The Wise Man’s Fear.
Don’t do what I did on my first read.
On this reread, I savored each page, paying proper attention to the beautifully composed structure of words that gives life to Auri, one of the most enigmatic characters in The Kingkiller Chronicle series; I’m blown away by how much I loved this book upon rereading it. …
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