by The WandererAuthor: Patrick Rothfuss
Publisher: DAW
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Series: Kingkiller Chronicle Book One
Pages: 722
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The Name of the Wind is the first book in a planned trilogy called the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Using a story within a story format readers are introduced to the life story of Kvothe, an aspiring arcanist, a morally ambiguous hero?… and a legend of his time.
The Name of the Wind is one of the grittiest stories set in the fantasy genre. This is the story of a great hero, or so we are being led to believe, but it really seems to be the story of how being a hero went wrong. The ambiguity of Kvothe’s (pronounced similarly to Quothe) character in the story is one of the many mysterious aspects that are underlying the plot of the Kingkiller Chronicles.
The detail and development of Kvothe’s character has made him one of the great characters of fantasy, and the way Rothfuss tells his story is also unique to the genre. The Name of the Wind begins a fantasy series that when complete has the potential to be on the same level as A Song of Ice and Fire and Lord of the Rings.
