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So I’d like to talk a little bit about the good things first:The author is very consistent in Auri’s voice, which I think can be fairly difficult to do. I also felt that overall the author made some good stylistic choices and the writing itself was somewhat poetic if a little bit repetitive.
Now I’d like to talk about why I think this book is a pointless, insipid, meandering novella that serves basically no purpose. At the risk of sounding harsh, the first thing I’d like to point a finger at is the introduction and the end note. Please stop telling me what is, and is not intended for me, and stop trying to shift the blame for a boring book away from yourself. If a couple people don’t like your book, it’s probably their fault. If a LOT of people don’t like your book, maybe you wrote a crappy book.
The author lists a couple of things that he left out of the book intentionally, dialogue, action, and additional characters being on that list. An experimental story is great. I am a huge fan of a lot of experimental books and stories. But when you’re writing an unusual story, you probably shouldn’t take out pretty much everything that people enjoy in a book, leaving behind nothing but a flat, unrelatable mentally ill girl to whom nothing much really happens. I was stricken by a pretty severe case of “so what?” itis with this book. The kiss of death for any story is definitely “I Don’t Care About These People” or should I say person?
Don’t get me wrong, I get it. I know what the author was trying to achieve. It was supposed to be a pretty little something, something, slice of life, snapshot of a girls life. And that’s fine, but I just don’t think that the Rothefuss embraces even that fully enough.
This is a book that can be read in one sitting. Many reviewers are already forming opinions and rightfully saying people will probably either love this book or hate this book. It is very unlike any other book I’ve read. It flows like a poem in a lot of ways, enticing the reader with simultaneously straightforward and indirect descriptions of Auri’s underworld. It is a wordy novel, and grossly detailed about rooms and introspection and as others have said, inanimate objects. For fans of Pat, you know that the world is not all that it seems and shouldn’t be looked at with a passing eye. Objects speak without words, names carry great power, and sometimes the traditional way of things really is the best.
If you enjoy painting pictures in your mind as you read, you will enjoy getting carried away as the book weaves this twisting and turning path through the depths. In the end, as readers, we end up connecting with the Auri in a deeper, albeit expected, level. However, if you really don’t like to see phrases repeated in a slightly OCD manner “Auri washed her face. She washed her hands and feet.” and don’t enjoy lots of environmental descriptions – well this book is going to drag a lot for you. There is no other easy way to say it. If you look closely though, Pat gets creative with the flow of his narrative and the words he chooses. At times it seems like he couldn’t choose and so did the right and proper thing of using three descriptive short sentences to get his point across. “The wide and welcome path to Black Door stretched before her like a dark black open mouth. A maw. A maul.” This fits the character Auri, the author, and the flow of the novel fairly well. Correctly. Honestly.
Most of us pick up a book for that interesting world and engrossing story driven plot.