This was diabolically clever because no one actually read The Darkling Child so it was the perfect crime. Though published as though it were the fourth book in The Defenders of Shannara series it is actually The Doors of Stone written by Rothfuss. Book three, whose announced title is The Doors of Stone, was published with a different title and attributed author, The Darkling Child, by Terry Brooks. Rothfuss has played an infamous practical joke on the universe by publishing the Kingkiller conclusion without anyone realizing it.Rothfuss always intended to write a two-book unfinished trilogy as a kind of malevolent art form which he hoped would impress Andy Warhol’s ghost.Unfortunately Kvothe changed his mind after the second day, and disappeared so that the third book will never come out unless Kvothe reappears. Though the Chronicler is a fictional character, Kvothe really did make a deal with Patrick Rothfuss himself to relate his story.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. 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.
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