A review by jenny_hedberg
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

3.0

I think a reread is going to bump this novel up from an "I liked it" to an "I really liked it". As a person who generally prefers plot-driven novels, it's quite logical that The Slow Regard of Silent Things didn't really hit home. However, the novel places itself somewhere in the middle ground between plot and character driven. The focus of the story is certainly Auri and the reader gets to know her intimately through the narrator's perspective, but there is also a sense of a more complex plot. The idea that someone can truly know an object's nature and "communicate" with it ties in neatly with Kvothe's studies in The Wise Man's Fear and is also a thrilling concept. Auri represents a way of living that is very different from my own and most of the world I would believe. She seems to have some kind of duty to the objects and the place that she lives in that is founded in a belief that nothing should be taken from its rightful place; the novel, to me, is filled with the idea of being in harmony with nature.

But what brings the novel down to a three then? Well, basically because this wasn't "my type of story". That the novel still gets three stars is a good sign.