He respects his readers as much as he does his characters.This is a nice fat book. Although my willingness to believe was stretched on occasion, Rothfuss never exceeds the bounds of what might be possible somewhere. Nevertheless, The Name of the Wind is an excellent book full of danger, mysteries, love and strange adventures. The second in the trilogy is to be published in March of 2011 and I am sure the story will be tighter and more carefully crafted. They are people and places born out of the author himself and they live because he makes them live.It is evident that this is a first book. He has created a place and characters out of new cloth. Often times fantasy books are plagued by the shadow of Middle Earth.
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