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# Immersive, Timeless Storytelling 4.7/5 Stars from 87K+ Reviews Epic Fantasy #67 Rank The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1)

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## Key Features

- • **Heroic Aspirations:** Follow Kvothe’s journey of brilliance and resilience—because heroes inspire greatness.
- • **Original Magic System:** Explore a unique and thoughtfully designed magic that sets this series apart.
- • **Masterful World-Building:** Dive into a richly crafted universe that feels alive and expansive.
- • **Critically Acclaimed & Beloved:** Join a community of 87,000+ readers who rate it 4.7 stars on average.
- • **Poetic Prose & Vivid Characters:** Experience storytelling that reads like art, with relatable heroes you’ll root for.

## Overview

The Name of the Wind, the first book in Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles, is a top-ranked epic fantasy novel celebrated for its poetic language, original magic system, and deeply relatable protagonist. With over 87,000 reviews averaging 4.7 stars, it offers an immersive reading experience that blends masterful world-building with a compelling, heroic narrative.

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Review: Fantasy perfection - This is fantasy at its perfection. The story of Kvothe is amazing, the world building is very good, and the magic system is very original. The language is so beautiful it almost reads like poetry, and the characters are very vivid and relateable. I loved all of it.
Review: Best Fantasy Novel in Years - Let me start by saying there is a difference in a novel being enjoyable and a novel being good. Enjoyable is subjective, good is not. For example, I did not find the Song of Fire and Ice series enjoyable (to nihilistic for my tastes), however, I recognize that it is very good. I found the Magician series by Raymond Fiest to be highly enjoyable and entertaining although I know it is not the most well written series ever. This book/series is a rare case of being both extremely enjoyable and incredibly good. The plot is engrossing, perfectly paced, and well thought out. I love the main character. Every time I pick up the book I slip into his shoes in under 10 seconds. It is so easy to feel what he feels as you follow his story. I find it incredibly refreshing that neither the problems nor the solutions to those problems require the characters to step outside of how they would rationally act in that situation. I find this to be the failing of so many novels (song of fire and ice being one of them). As I read the 1 star reviews, I can not help but think these people have low self-esteem. The common thread through most of these reviews is that the main character is to perfect. They hate that he is smart, a great musician, and can do magic. I personally enjoy reading about a great person overcoming the great problems the world presents. I want my heroes to be heroic, to be something to aspire to myself. I get that not everyone else does, the anti-hero is very trendy right now. The people who 1-star this series almost always hold up the song of fire and ice series as the opposite of the kingkiller chronicles, but don't listen to them. Like I said above there is a difference between enjoyable and good. The critics of this series are confusing not enjoyable with not good. They did not like the book therefore they think that it is bad. They want their anti-heroes in a world where everyone is bad guy and no good dead goes unpunished or the book sucks. It annoys me that these anti-hero books get the ironic label of being "more real" (its funny because they are fantasy novels). I don't not believe the natural state of man to be wicked and have found karma to me more real than nihilism. Look, if don't care about quality and are just looking for a book where everyone is a bad guy who hate life and everyone living in it then you probably won't enjoy this series. But don't call a book with a great plot, interesting characters, and well thought out themes bad. Just say you didn't find it enjoyable. That way we will understand that you simply have different tastes, and that you are not, in fact, stupid. After you read this series check out Brandon Sanderson's novels (Mistborn stuff and the amazing new Stormlight series).

## Features

- The Name of the Wind

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,013,940 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #67 in Epic Fantasy (Books) #679 in Literature & Fiction (Books) #6,889 in Urban Fantasy (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 87,118 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantasy perfection
*by J***Y on December 10, 2025*

This is fantasy at its perfection. The story of Kvothe is amazing, the world building is very good, and the magic system is very original. The language is so beautiful it almost reads like poetry, and the characters are very vivid and relateable. I loved all of it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best Fantasy Novel in Years
*by R***N on December 5, 2012*

Let me start by saying there is a difference in a novel being enjoyable and a novel being good. Enjoyable is subjective, good is not. For example, I did not find the Song of Fire and Ice series enjoyable (to nihilistic for my tastes), however, I recognize that it is very good. I found the Magician series by Raymond Fiest to be highly enjoyable and entertaining although I know it is not the most well written series ever. This book/series is a rare case of being both extremely enjoyable and incredibly good. The plot is engrossing, perfectly paced, and well thought out. I love the main character. Every time I pick up the book I slip into his shoes in under 10 seconds. It is so easy to feel what he feels as you follow his story. I find it incredibly refreshing that neither the problems nor the solutions to those problems require the characters to step outside of how they would rationally act in that situation. I find this to be the failing of so many novels (song of fire and ice being one of them). As I read the 1 star reviews, I can not help but think these people have low self-esteem. The common thread through most of these reviews is that the main character is to perfect. They hate that he is smart, a great musician, and can do magic. I personally enjoy reading about a great person overcoming the great problems the world presents. I want my heroes to be heroic, to be something to aspire to myself. I get that not everyone else does, the anti-hero is very trendy right now. The people who 1-star this series almost always hold up the song of fire and ice series as the opposite of the kingkiller chronicles, but don't listen to them. Like I said above there is a difference between enjoyable and good. The critics of this series are confusing not enjoyable with not good. They did not like the book therefore they think that it is bad. They want their anti-heroes in a world where everyone is bad guy and no good dead goes unpunished or the book sucks. It annoys me that these anti-hero books get the ironic label of being "more real" (its funny because they are fantasy novels). I don't not believe the natural state of man to be wicked and have found karma to me more real than nihilism. Look, if don't care about quality and are just looking for a book where everyone is a bad guy who hate life and everyone living in it then you probably won't enjoy this series. But don't call a book with a great plot, interesting characters, and well thought out themes bad. Just say you didn't find it enjoyable. That way we will understand that you simply have different tastes, and that you are not, in fact, stupid. After you read this series check out Brandon Sanderson's novels (Mistborn stuff and the amazing new Stormlight series).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An entertaining book, and a very hard one to rate
*by J***S on April 7, 2008*

I had a really hard time rating this book... I both thoroughly enjoyed it and had reservations about it at the same time. It started off a bit differently than I thought it would, and at first, I didn't think I was going to enjoy it at all. Kvothe (or Kote, or Reshi, depending on the perspective) wasn't a very interesting character at first. The Name of the Wind starts in its present timeline with Kvothe as a bartender, running from his past and trying to make sure no one knows who he is. He's a legend, for reasons mostly unknown, even at the end of this book. The book starts with the small town in which Kvothe resides having an encounter with spider creatures that may actually be demons. The locals discuss the portents of this and Kvothe tells them how to deal with it without telling how he is knowledgable of these things. Soon Devan Lochees, or Chronicler (not The Chronicler, just Chronicler, oddly enoough) arrives, having wind of Kvothe residing there and deperately wanting to chronicle his story, as his name implies. The dialogue between the locals and even between Kvothe and Chronicler was pretty typical and not very interesting and I was close to putting this book down. However... as Kvothe actually begins his story the book becomes insantly addicting. Somehow it seemed like a completely different book. The dialogue had whit and was clever and even funny in parts. His traveling theater troupe of a family and his first teacher Abenthy made interesting characters and Kvothe himself as a child did as well. The magic system that is explained by his teacher is also clever and partially explained by science, so when it comes up later, it doesn't seem to be a Deus ex Machina. The book moves from one setting to another, following Kvothe all the while as he lives through various events and tragedies. Mostly tragedies. He lives a pretty harsh life reminiscent of Fitz if you're familiar with Robin Hobb's work, though perhaps not QUITE as tragic. He meets various friends and mentors, and enemies as well. After theiving and hiding and trying to survive, he makes his way to the University to study the Arcane arts and the book finds its focal point. I think this is where people are coming up with the Harry Potter comparisons, but other than the fact that he attends a school that teaches magic in some form, there's really not much else to compare to Rowling's series. This may sound a little boring but it isn't. Kvothe's life actually is very interesting and he develops to be a well thought out character, even if none of the secondary characters really do. And there is an underlying plotline behind all this that I can't really go into for fear of ruining it, but it involves powerful beings that resemble demons, and may even be so. That might sound familiar if you've read a bit of fantasy but it's handled well and provides a creepy underlying tone to the whole book. One of my biggest issues with the book is that Kvothe seems too perfect, as if there's nothing he can't do. Everything he tries to do, he excells at: music, theiving, arcane arts, outdoor survivalism and various other random things. He practically does everything in the story but have a child. He still made some bad judgement calls and does a few stupid things, but this pales compared to his vast knowlege and the fact that he exceeds above average in every class he takes at the university. He says he doesn't know anything about women, yet every woman he comes across seems to be infatuated with him. But... as the story ended I realized that his borderline perfection might've been what Rothfuss was going for, after all, Kvothe is a legend. If you tell a story about a fictional legendary character, I suppose it has to come out something like this. Rothfuss' style is well read, though there are a few clumsy mistakes like repeating the same idea or the same phrase more than once in a paragraph. This doesn't happen much but it seems like something an editor should have caught. And of course there is the fact that this is only the first of a trilogy. I ususally don't mind this, but Kvothe's story doesn't really come to any kind of head or give a satisfying conclusion. The present day portion gives a bit of a surprise and revalation, but his past chronicle is basically just put on pause and really leaves one wanting more. I suppose I can't complain much about this part, as orignally the author was just going to write one book, rather than three. Still, this is a good read, despite my complaints. I have to admit after reading both of Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard books, my fantasy reading nose was held a bit high along with my expectations, but I can't compare The Name of the Wind with fantasy along those lines. There really isn't a whole lot that is new here, but most of it is very well done. Kvothe's change of character between past and present is pretty reasonably explained, so by the end I was satisfied with some of what bothered me in the beginning. So I recommend this to anyone who likes a good story (or a good story about a good story, depending how you look at it.) It's not for those with a short attention span, as the action is few and far between, but as a good writer can prove, action can be provided with more than just blades. If you're looking to check out what's new in fantasy, Rothfuss may prove worth your while.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 1
- The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle)
- Slow Regard of Silent Things : a Kingkiller Chronicle Novella

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