The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 1 - Patrick Rothfuss

The Name of the Wind is a book about a man named Kvothe, now that is a name that grabs the attention, how many of today's authors would use a name like that? It starts after the events that the book describes in a rather boring and uneventful town called Newarre, more specifically in the waystone in where an inkeeper named Kote tends a bar. Of course the mans name isn't really Kote, its Kvothe, as the back of the book says, "I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than ...  Read the complete review