Sunlife Drawing

I don't think there are words to fully encompass this books greatness. While I've heard time and time again "it's a must read", after reading it all I can muster is wow. The suspense, and mystery surrounding every aspect of the world and Kvothes life are enough to keep a reader on the edge of their seat. But to add in the way the story has been woven together, and the art of the sentences. wow. Reading this book gave me chills, and has left me recovering from a book drunken stupor.

I never read reviews until after I read a book, so I'll add that this book is about a person telling a story about them self. Not only that, but them self in their adolescence. Most stories about ones self aren't as they seem as we tend to see ourselves in a specific rose colored light. It is easy to over analyze a story being told, but to understand the weight of the words from the storytellers perspective makes for a much different tale. This books had many layers and meanings. For me, Kvothe may be good at many things and his story would obviously point out how amazing he is as much as possible, but he is also just as bad at many other things, and shows his faults and weaknesses through out the story. I also feel like he is a hopeless romantic with a lack of understand for women (typical adolescence behavior), and that not every story needs a "strong female lead" or women to only be shown in a specific light. But each person in his story serves a purpose to his life, and if you analyze his upbringing, as told by him, his thoughts and actions make a lot of sense in my opinion. But as this is only day 1, much of the meaning is yet to be determined.… (más)