kingkiller chronicle – Cannonball Read 17

Fuck Beginnings, or How I Learned to Stop Kvetching and Love The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

January 20, 2020 by Pheagan 4 Comments

I read this book because people who love the same kinds of books that I do dearly love this book. At the risk of offending the true blue fans, I did not exactly love this book in the beginning. I think it’s worthwhile to talk about it for others who might be put off by the same things I was. Spoiler alert: I ended up loving it. Also, this review really is mildly spoilerish, so make your own choices as to whether to read it. […]

Great Start to a Fantasy Series with Neat Magic Logic

October 27, 2016 by Lisa Bee 2 Comments

This book was recommended to me by my cousin, and I am definitely feeling it and want to continue on with the series when I get a chance. It is an interesting way to begin a story, having a character recount their own story before something else is obviously going to occur in the present of the tale. Filled with new types of magic that I have not really experienced in other books, as well as a dark mystery that the protagonist wants to solve […]

You, too, can speak the name of the wind. JK. Only the specially chosen can do that.

May 25, 2015 by tillie 3 Comments

I am in love with The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I cannot be snarky about this one. I have fallen in love completely and it has left me blind to the faults of this novel. I want to speak the name of the wind, I want to find the dragons and I want to go in search of the Chandrian. But I don’t want to do it with Kvothe. Kvothe is the “Hero” of the story. We first meet him, quietly sweeping his inn as […]

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