Fortunately Bast himself, one of the book’s characters, agreed to review the materials and give his assessment. The way I decided to approach this was to pull together a list of possible causes, and then ask someone who would know for sure if any of them were true.
It has been over 11 years since my former Penguin rep, Peter Giannoni, mailed me an ARC of book one,The Name of the Wind, telling me that he thought I would like it (true) and that the author had written all three books while he was in grad school so there wouldn’t be a wait involved beyond the usual one year between each release (not true).Īt this point, seven years out from when I read book two, Wise Man’s Fear, it seemed time to get some hard facts about the cause for the continuing absence of book three. The author is sick of being asked about it, the publisher is sick of being asked about it, and readers are sick of asking booksellers about it. It is a weariness shared by others connected to the book as well. A person's mental health is far more important than getting a book done, and hopefully, Rothfuss remains all right going forward.One thing many booksellers have in common is a weariness of answering questions about the publication date of the third book in Patrick Rothfuss’ Kingkiller trilogy. And I should get it f***ing embroidered on a pillow or f***ing put a poster over there or something because the vast majority of you are great, but man, things on the internet do not scale." With the kind of following Rothfuss has on social media, he said he consistently hears negative things, and it can add up quickly. For the most part, it sounds like a majority of Rothfuss' fans are okay waiting, but every so often, you get someone who's nasty because they expected this book to come out years ago.īeing part of that 99 has become somewhat of a mantra to Rothfuss' fans, and as he said in the stream, "It's a real sweet thing. In June 2022, he uploaded a video to YouTube where he spoke about the 99 phenomenon, which basically goes if you meet 99 nice people in a day and one mean person, you're only going to focus on the one mean person. However, some people can naturally be mean when it comes to the artists who create what they enjoy, and Rothfuss has stated how it can be difficult to ignore those voices.
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