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

5.0

I wish I could read this all over again for the first time. It was THAT good. Ironically, I had never heard about this book, or the apparently famous not-yet-completed trilogy it's a part of, until I went to one of my fave indie bookshops (yay for Joseph Beth-Lexington!) in search of a totally different book. The ridiculously well-read (of course he was) gentleman that rang up my eventual purchases saw my daughter's Hamilton shirt and he started talking to her about the genius that is Lin-Manuel Miranda. He mentioned that Lin-Manuel was adapting his favorite book, The Name of The Wind, into a television series. He started describing it and I immediately went back and bought it too. :)

It was worth every penny. Epic journeys, schools of magic, characters I quickly became obsessed with, and a story to end all stories. This is a book you can (and I did) get lost in.

(*The second installment was just as fantastic. NOW COME ON, ROTHFUSS, AND GIVE US THE FINAL ONE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY AND GOOD!)