I probably hate your favorite fantasy series.

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” - Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear

Based upon the recommendation of Jason Hadix at Arcanum Security during some podcast I can't quite remember - I picked up a copy of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, one of the few fantasy books I've read in the last decade that I had problems putting down. As I sit here half way through the second book I've identified the most frustrating trend in the majority of popular fantasy these days, I'm here to tell you all to stop it.

Multi-Point-of-view writing in fantasy is probably the worst thing that's happened since amazon decided to throw out everything Tolkien ever wrote in order to make a TV show.

I understand the appeal, let's give the story from 10 different angles, and hopefully have them converge in some climactic ending that shakes us to our core, who's the hero? Who's the villain? Who survives? I think most of us assume if its Joe Abercrombie or George RR Martin whichever character we enjoy the chapters of the most will die violently and anticlimactically.

This writing style probably works for television. However for novels I don't think it is the answer. I reflect on my time reading the published Game of Thrones novels and I recall vividly how many chapters I did not want to read. Getting to a character that I didn't find engaging, or didn't find relevant to the story I found interesting made those in-between character chapters simply a chore. Reading for leisure shouldn't feel like a job, where I have to suffer through mediocrity to get to the good part. I feel like It's running on a treadmill to justify having a beer with dinner. It's just awful.

Now that I've found a writer that rejects this new Sanderson/Martin-style of narration I just want to say here for the 2 of you that found this site, I'm not going back.

Those authors will get none of my 99cents from kobo or amazon when I buy a new ebook. This will be the first question I ask before I start any more leisurely reading, how many perspectives are there? If > 3 I PASS.

Thank you for your time.

-Zak