The Ademre bit has always stuck for me as well, and I think there's some pretty…awkward implications from the very surface-level matriarchy. I mean, it's a pretty generic fantasy Orientalizing of China, for one thing, and he also manages to include a lot of beautiful women who are sexually available and dominant but…

Also associated with the amazing and unjustly unknown experimental/ metal/ complicated supergroup Praxis. Bernie Worrell, ya'll.

Definitely agree. In the first book, there are really only two points where the 'meta' thing sticks at all: the call the lightning scene, and the draccus scene.

He ruins everything, sure, but even in the frame story he's a brilliant fighter who everyone wants to know more about and comes to like rapidly. "He makes mistakes" doesn't really substantially detract from his Sue-ness when he is still always personally awesome, and the bad stuff that happens is just PLOT dropped…

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Rothfuss is so bog-standard its infuriating. It's a completely standard hero's journey, with some extremely lazy subversion stuff tacked on in a very transparent manner. Honestly, I'd describe them as Ready Player One meets Harry Potter.

I really, really, REALLY dislike the Kingkiller series, of which Name of the Wind is the first. It is worth noting that he actually claimed that all three books were done at the time he published Name, though there hasn't been a single solid word on Doors of Stone in at least a year (at least GRRM has preview…