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Originally Posted by queentess
NotW reminded me of a hybrid between Harry Potter (boy goes to wacky wizarding school) and Robin Hobb's Farseer series (boy is somewhat special, but screws up and is somewhat stupid about things). The writing was very Hobbish with all the detail and weird story arc.
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I have to agree on the similarities between Rothfuss' Kvothe and Hobb's FitzChivalry characters. I'm also reminded of Severian and his "unreliable narrator"-ness from Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun.
I find it all very entertaining, but Rothfuss has a slight case of diarrhea of the word-processor. A slightly more aggressive editor could fix that right up.