Book Review: Name of the Wind

by: Patrick Rothfuss

My girlfriend recommended this book to me and I knew it must be good because she’s not a huge fan of the fantasy genre. In a word, this book is breathless. The whole story is of wonder and amazement. It involves magic and demons and a dragon. But it is also human. There is love, death, learning.

The story surrounds a man named Kvothe. He is telling the story of his life and we are there to witness. How he was born into a traveling troupe, learned magic from a visitor, dealt with the death of his family, survived day to day as a street urchin, eventually joined the University, fell in love with a girl, slayed a dragon and uttered the name of the wind. But wait, there’s more.

Name of the Wind is the first of an expected trilogy known as The Kingkiller Chronicle. The second book was published earlier this year and the final one does not currently have a release date.