The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This one starts out slow, but picks up tremendously around page 80, again at page 200, and is addictive and impossible to put down by page 300.

I'm not sure what makes this novel so strong — the writing is strong, the story (as the back cover says) is one you've read before, but I think it's really the character of Kvothe that does it. In real life, you might hate this guy out of pure jealousy — he's incredibly ...