Before anything, I'd like to say that even though this blog is written in English, I recommend you to do as I did and read the books I criticise in their original language (if you can). This way you'll like them much more and you'll find astute word games and double meanings which will help you read the book in all of its potential.

June 11, 2011

The Name of The Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

Criticism

This is a book that everyone will love, although I think that adults will prefer it. It has the perfect amount of mistery, fantasy, emotion, action, humour and, of course, romanticism for it to be impossible to stop reading once you've started.
Even though in the beginning it may seem a bit "fat", you reed it in the space of a heartbeat and you end up wishing it'd been longer.
This is an excellent book for people who liked books like The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, but also for people who like to dream or spend time with people. If you've read this book and liked it I'd recommend you to read The Hunger Games, which I've also recommended in this blog, and an original saga of four books written by Alison Croggon called Pellinor. It is very imaginative and fantastical, but it enters people's psicology the world's way of thinking while being written in the same style as the Wind's Name.


Resume

This book, written by Patrick Rothfuss, is the firsto of the "Kingkiller" triology. It tells us the story of a mysterious boy called Kvothe who is incrediblly intelligent and who has to learn to survive alone in a world in which magic is not something people laugh of. This child, recently made orphan, wishes with all his heart to find the wind's name and become a legendary character like his heroes; and the narrator (the boy some years later) talks about the difficult and dangerous path he must take to get to university, where he'll learn the answers to all his questions. In the way he'll make friends, enemies and the girl isn't missing in this classical but at the same time innovating story.



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