The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind by Patick Rothfuss is a story within a story. The main character Kvothe tells the story of his life to Chronicler who writes it all down. From early childhood and on our protagonist Kvothe excels at everything he does. If it takes a normal person a year to learn something, he does it in a week. Kvothe is so good and smart you just want to punch him in the face. Everything works out for him in the end and he always has the answer. Combine this character with the epic length of book you would assume you have quite a bit of adventure happening. Wrong epic length is matched by its epic slowness leaving readers with a huge amount of time put into reading the book and very little coming out of it. Now I'm not saying Patick Rothfuss is a poor writer, I'm just saying The Name of the Wind is not the great story everyone keeps talking about in the fantasy book community. The world Rothfuss has created is a little on the plain side and at times may be boring to read about. Readers beware you are in for a long ride, this is only the first book in the series and there seems to be a lack of a feeling of closure when you finish this book. I would only recommend this to diehard fantasy readers.