Cee's review
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One)
by Patrick Rothfuss
Cee's review
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) by Patrick Rothfuss
Cee's review
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fantasy
I read the first two paragraphs of this book - an overly verbose description of silence - winced, and decided I was going to hate it. Then it rapidly improved, and I ended up reading really slowly to put off coming to the end of the story too quickly.
We are introduced in the beginning to Kvothe, an innkeeper in a small town. Kvothe is a legend in his world - he hides his identity from his customers, who sometimes tell stories about his life while drinking in the evenings. For various reasons, Kvothe begins to tell his own story to a writer, the Chronicler, and that's where the book immediately draws you in. Kvothe's voice is excellent - he starts in his childhood, in a travelling troupe of actors, his early education with an arcanist, and moves through to his early adulthood at the University.
This is brilliant high fantasy - fantastic stuff, and I can't wait for the next book in the trilogy (god, I hate reading trilogies while the author's still writing them). See other ...more
We are introduced in the beginning to Kvothe, an innkeeper in a small town. Kvothe is a legend in his world - he hides his identity from his customers, who sometimes tell stories about his life while drinking in the evenings. For various reasons, Kvothe begins to tell his own story to a writer, the Chronicler, and that's where the book immediately draws you in. Kvothe's voice is excellent - he starts in his childhood, in a travelling troupe of actors, his early education with an arcanist, and moves through to his early adulthood at the University.
This is brilliant high fantasy - fantastic stuff, and I can't wait for the next book in the trilogy (god, I hate reading trilogies while the author's still writing them). See other ...more