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Great Start to a Fantasy Series with Neat Magic Logic

October 27, 2016 by Lisa Bee 2 Comments

This book was recommended to me by my cousin, and I am definitely feeling it and want to continue on with the series when I get a chance. It is an interesting way to begin a story, having a character recount their own story before something else is obviously going to occur in the present of the tale. Filled with new types of magic that I have not really experienced in other books, as well as a dark mystery that the protagonist wants to solve […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: kingkiller chronicle, name of the wind, Patrick Rothfuss, Series

Lisa Bee's CBR8 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: kingkiller chronicle, name of the wind, Patrick Rothfuss, Series ·
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Oh Thank God, An Honest Narrator

January 5, 2015 by Ale 2 Comments

The beauty in this book was breathtaking. Rothfuss’s structure, world building, and character development are so rich and colorful it almost feels like the world is jumping off the page at you in bright, vivid, reality. It may be sacrilegious to say, but I feel that Rothfuss could become this century’s Tolkien. His love for music, lyrical poetry and folklore bleed through every page of this novel in the best way possible. As much as I was gushing about this series after finishing “A Wise […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: a wise man's fear, epic, fantasy, name of the wind, rothfuss

Ale's CBR7 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: a wise man's fear, epic, fantasy, name of the wind, rothfuss ·
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