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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

21 reviews

xjr's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The writing is fantastic! Has a magical, medieval feel to it. Lots of witty quips and poetry-esque descriptions and thoughts. The song segments were fun too!

I really enjoyed the world building as well. The nods to how language works and interacts + the way rumors became stories with specs of truth was fascinating and imo accurate.

Be warned! This book is part of a series, of which this is the first book. One sequel is available and a side story about a minor character (idk if she becomes more prominent in the 2nd book) 

This book focuses on Kvothe's past and why he is the innkeeper he is today. A majority takes place in a frame narrative about the adventure stories told about him. Mostly:

his childhood, his time Tarbean, and his time at university

. Sparsely filled with romance, which imo was the slowest and most repetitive part and could've shaved a dozen pages off of the book. In the latter half I noticed a lot of repetitions. While it makes sense in the story and narrative wise, it's not enjoyable to read to me.

It doesn't work as a standalone book either as it ends with

most mysteries open and a cliffhanger that foreshadows things to come in the second book I assume

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Bullying, and Violence

Minor: Blood and Sexual harassment

The world similarly to us has a sexist attitude to women. The protagonist fights against this. The book however does a lot more tell than show as all the women are tools or ladies in distress for Kvothe to save even if he says they are otherwise.

lynleybidlake's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Physical abuse

Minor: Drug abuse

nickiholmes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Drug abuse

emjams's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Police brutality

Moderate: Alcohol and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Rape

lunep's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Classism, Addiction, Blood, Gore, Police brutality, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Xenophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Sexism, and War

Graphic depictions of poverty and homelessness take up a significant portion of the story. Graphic description and discussion of giant spiders.

manarnia's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A bit meandering, but overall an engrossing fantasy book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Rape, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Gore, War, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

crystalmethany's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying and Misogyny

Minor: Drug abuse

vittorioseg's review against another edition

It was such a downspiral of uninteresting suffering and lukewarm victories. I just felt stressed out when reading it and I realized that I was forcing myself to continue because of the hype. And it didn't live for it. The character didn't came as witty or intelligent. The world didn't come as fleshed out. And the prose was, for me at least, nothing to write about. I just couldn't enjoy this book, at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship

cuppa_curiositea's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I have so many mixed opinions about this book. The writing style is very beautiful, and I think that that is one of Rothfuss' biggest strengths. The structure of this book is not conventional, but it mostly works. I'm not gonna lie, it was really frustrating getting to the end of a 700 PAGE BOOK, only to realize that I was going to run out of pages before Rothfuss could even begin to tie things up. I am a firm believer that AT LEAST the first book of a planned series should be standalone. Frankly, I can't think of a single significant arc that I feel any satisfaction from. This book horribly fails the Bechdel test. While I don't necessarily consider that as a measure for book quality, I mention it specifically because every female is either used to show us how great Kvothe is or they are sexualized for no reason ("But, Camille! He's 15! Of course he has sex on his mind!" So what!?!? If you can't even have higher standards for FICTIONAL boys, then you are definitely the type of person to say 'boys will be boys' in real life. Of course it's important to explore and understand sexuality, but these moments were purely objectification not moments for character growth).

Now I want to explain my answers to the review questionnaire:
1. Plot or character driven? There is no plot. There is one overarching goal to learn more about the Chandrian, but that goal is on the backburner for most of the book and there is no indication of what Kvothe even plans to do with that information.
2. Is there strong character development? Hell no. Every time one of his flaws gets him trouble, he quickly gets out of it. There are SO MANY false defeats in this book. Just when you think Kvothe will fail--even at something small--either he comes up with a clever solution or someone says something to the tune of "just kidding." He never has a true failure to actually grow from.
3. Did you find the characters loveable? It's complicated. Interesting? Yes. Lovable? At first. The second half of the book, I was just frustrated at Kvothe for pulling his same old shit over and over again.
4. Is the cast of characters diverse? It doesn't feel diverse. Though technically he does encounter people of different cultures and backgrounds, everyone feels generally homogenous. Honestly, most of the characters even share a very similar personality and voice.
5. Are the flaws of the main character a main focus of the book? Absolutely. Kvothe is a little dick, to be honest, but the smart kind. He has a very flawed character that gets him into trouble, he just doesn't learn from these mistakes. He comes up with clever solutions to cover them up instead.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Misogyny

mikki_9's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content