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Mar 15, 2017Chapel_Hill_MaiaJ rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
With beautiful literary writing, this is a significantly different sort of book from the Kingkiller Chronicles, although they exist in the same story universe. In fact, I think you could read this without having read the original series at all and still appreciate it. There is almost no real action in this book, and somehow I felt super involved in every little thing that happened because of the emotional weight it clearly holds for Auri. As Rothfuss explains in the afterword, he never thought people would want to read such a book, but everyone who requested to see it loved it because they could relate to Auri's brokenness. He says he wrote this for all the broken people in the world who can understand where Auri's coming from. Auri has always been my favorite character in the Kingkiller Chronicles and I loved reading more about her--the fragmented hints of her past, the explanations of her thinking, and the experience of her daily life.