The Name of the Wind

 The Name of the Wind was Patrick Rothfuss's debut novel, and it received all kinds of attention when it was released.  Numerous awards too.

 The story centers around Kvothe, and is primarily told in first person from his perspective, although there is a section at the begging written in third person.  As the story begins, Kvothe is an old man, and apparently regarded as a hero, or at least in his own mind.

  The initial section, written in third person is somewhat slow, but once Kvothe begins to recount the story of how he came to be a hero, everything picks up and the novel really shows its strength.
 We follow Kvothe from his days a street entertainer, to his time at a university, although as this is just the first of what is likely to be a trilogy, this novel doesn't go much past that.

 Kvothe is an entertaining narrator, a touch arrogant perhaps, but he seems more capable than most.

 As a single novel this is good read, although it lacks much in the way of conclusion, so until the rest of the story is available, it is hard to judge it fully.  The quality of the writing is fairly high, Rothfuss seems to have spent a great deal of time trimming and perfecting the prose.

9.1/10