The Wise Man's Fear

So I finally finished it.  The Wise Mans Fear feels very much like the middle part of the trilogy.  In it we find Kvothe coming of age to some degree, growing up into some of the harsh realities of life, yet still plagued by his pride and obsession. 

It's a great read, though, to some degree it suffered by only being as brilliantly crafted as The Name of The Wind.  By this I mean it's a beautifully crafted novel, with not a word out of place, just like the first in the series.  I suppose, on some level, I hoped to be as wowed by it as I was by the first novel, but it's really hard to better something thats as close to perfect as it could be.  But The Wise Man's Fear is certainly as good as it's predecessor, which makes it a brilliant read that I was sad to finish. 

I don't want to say too much about the book, or it's story, you should just buy it and read it for yourself.  But one question keeps coming back to me.  This trilogy, is Kvothe telling Chronicler the story of how he got to be at the Wayside Inn in the small town he is in.  He has lost hope and yet Bast and Chronicler want to reawaken his hope to get him engaged in the coming crisis.  The thing is, the very structure of this trilogy means that the current crisis, and Kvothe's engagement in it, can't be addressed in this series.  I only hope that Patrick is planning to tell that story once he's finished with the current one.  Given Pat's rate of producing books, I'd calculate that this will keep me in reading for the next 12 to 16 years (2 to 3 years to produce each book, with one book to finish this trilogy, and three for another trilogy). 

A good thing I'd say.  I just hope he doesn't do a Robert Jordan on me