/lit/ - Literature

>>20764353
I'm now almost half-way through the third book and...I'm admittedly skimming a lot. The pace of the story starts grating on me after three similar books, I have only so much patience for unending little adventures. It truly reads like a webnovel, sometimes. I get the idea of showing three different perspectives, but so far it feels like the author took the same story skeleton and applied it three times in a row. Nonetheless, I'll finish the book in few hours and decide whether it's worth to read the second trilogy.

>>20372888
>I was on board with Kvothe being this larger than life character but man Rothfus got lost in the weeds in book 2 and just digressed away from the main story way too much for what he had initially set up as a trilogy. I think you're right in that he didn't have a plan for each book which is how the second one got away from him. I have no idea why though, after he finished the manuscript for it, he didn't realize he'd squandered an entire book. Surely his editor told him to rethink that book since it fucked up his entire three book plan and three day framing device. Then again Rothfus was given a weird amount of hype from the very start. He was paid a very huge advance for his books and started off as a celebrity author despite having published nothing but one book. Maybe his editor just wasn't there for him.

I am absolutely convinced that The Kingkiller Chronicles is just another 'mythical, legendary character story' which people always love, that has gained particularly strong fame. I've seen stories like that numerous times. I enjoyed them extremely. But the author didn't seem to have any particular idea how to take his story forward, merely being good at using THE IDEA of a character like Kvothe. If another book doesn't come, I don't think people will even talk about the series in 10-20 years. I am quite sure there were similar instances in history of fantasy writing, where people got some fame, but had never managed to finish their stories. And we don't hear of them, because they were simply forgotten, unfinished, sentenced for oblivion.

Guys, give me recommendations for some solid Progression Fantasy, but not just popcorn, I need that juicy motivational mindset, overcoming obstacles, possibly from zero to hero, something like this. I really need that today.
I've already read Cradle, so not that.