Be forewarned: once you start reading this you may lose sleep. Not because it's scary or anything, but because you'll stay up late reading it. (Thanks, Emily, for lending me the book and making me consume that much more coffee.) Then when you finish it, you will shake your fist at the heavens when you learn that Patrick Rothfuss has not yet finished the second book. OK, so it's good. Doesn't break any new ground in fantasy (although the science/magic has a sort of steampunk, sort of Girl Genius feel to it), but it's a ripping good yarn.
