Ahoy there! Ye heard it straight from me. I didn't love the second book. There were parts that were okay but overall this was a big fat fail. Now Matey Katie asked, "are you planning to write a review? I'd love to read it but understand the comment above might be all you need to describe it." Well upon some more thought, I figured Matey Katie deserved an answer, even if it be brief . . .

So this story was basically a Marty Stu tale where ye can throw out the whole book and nothing of use really happens. There are two things I liked about the book:

1) the cool tree in the Fae land

2) the concept of the rings even if execution wasn't great

And Rothfuss does have some nice turns of phrase throughout. There were multiple things I despised. I won't list them all (it would take about 990 pages of the book):

1) Denna - she is a selfish bitch and sucks and Kvothe should have gone for the librarian at the college or Devi or really ANYONE else.

2) Wandering through the Woods forever and seemingly in circles

3) The fae love scene. It felt like that alone was hundreds of pages. Ugh.

4) Rothfuss skipping the cool things like the shipwreck and trial.

5) The warrior women training camp. Blech.

6) Nothing of interest happens with the Chandrian.

Etc. Etc. Etc. Basically at around 2/3 through ye start to become sympathetic to the Chronicler's position that gettting Kvothe's story shouldn't need three days. Cause day two didn't advance the plot at all. And because I adored book one so much, book two was a betrayal. I will likely read the third book for curiousity sake and to discuss it with the first mate. There is no excitement about getting a release date and if it doesn't come out I will survive.

But if ye really want to know how I feel then look no further than Twila's Goodreads review.

So Matey Katie, I hope this helps. Arrrr!