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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172529959m/186074.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Name of the Wind</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/108424.Patrick_Rothfuss">Patrick Rothfuss</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5678284?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>In a word? Disappointed. I thought this was going to be the next harry potter but it didn't quite live up to that. Made me realize that one of the greatest strengths of harry potter books are the characters themselves. Even down to some of the smallest roles you always feel like there is something much larger there, even if the author doesn't choose to develop them. You believe that every person is really a person. It makes suspension of disbelief for a fantasy universe so much more feasible when the things you *are* familiar with make sense. <br/> <br/>All the characters in this book came across as dull to me. Don't even get me started on the main love interest. What was so special about that girl?? She was boring as all hell. <br/>The story itself had its moments. Some parts were slow and ploddy and other parts were kind of gripping. I think it could have been about 300 pages shorter....It has potential I guess, maybe the next two will be better but I think its a good thing that I don't have to eagerly await their release date. It was this guys first book afterall. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/333733?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>