Lia 's Reviews > The Name of the Wind

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

The Name of The Wind is a book that took me months to finish, but not because I didn't enjoy it. I was just saving every page and svoring every line like an addicted person saves their last dose.
The characters, even the smallest ones, have a way of making their way into your heart that you can't help but fall for every single one of them. The bad guys, too. You can't keep yourself from start to consider all these paper people your friends.
Kvothe is one of my favorite main characters of all times. He kinda reminds me of an older Harry Potter, for the braveness and the sarcasm, but at the same time I think he's possibly sweeter and paradoxically crueler when in need to be.

Rothfuss' writing is extraordinary. The descriptions, the world building, the dialogues, they're all so meticulous and special that with every turn of the page, it felt like I was there.
This entire book feels and reads like a long journey. A sometimes pleasant, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking journey that I'd take again and again.

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

The Name of the Wind is a rich story filled with its very own history and detailed plot. Once you get into its world, it's very hard to come back, though it's oh so great that I don't think anyone would mind.

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.

Rothfuss, mah man...you rock!

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.