A review by soniagracelm
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

3.0

My immediate reaction upon finishing the book was irritation. It felt like I had just read nearly seven hundred pages of prologue. Patrick Rothfuss is a decent writer, to be sure, and his characters are mostly interesting. His main problem is that this book is all backstory. Nothing actually happens. There are villains - sort of - but they aren’t particularly well-rounded. They seem fairly incidental actually. The main point of the story is to establish the character of Kvothe, our hero, by examining his childhood and adolescence. We also see Kvothe as a broken man post-EVENT.

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