As absorbing on a second reading as it is on the first, this is the type of assured, rich first novel most writers can only dream of producing. It begins with our main character living as an owner of a secluded tavern. The name of the novel is related to the magic system in it in which magic is drawn from elements and combination of energy. From his upbringing as an actor in his family's traveling troupe of magicians, jugglers and jesters, the Edema Ruh, to feral child on the streets of the vast port city of Tarbean, then his education at "the University," Kvothe is driven by twin imperatives-his desire to learn the higher magic of naming and his need to discover as much as possible about the Chandrian, the demons of legend who murdered his family. The Name of the Wind is the first book in a trilogy about life, growth and heroic deeds of the main character Kvothe. Prompted by a biographer called Chronicler who realizes his true identity, Kvothe starts to tell his life story.
Kvothe ("pronounced nearly the same as 'Quothe' "), the hero and villain of a thousand tales who's presumed dead, lives as the simple proprietor of the Waystone Inn under an assumed name.
The originality of Rothfuss's outstanding debut fantasy, the first of a trilogy, lies less in its unnamed imaginary world than in its precise execution.
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