Patrick Rothfuss is the bestselling author of The Kingkiller Chronicle. His first novel, The Name of the Wind, won the Quill Award and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Its sequel, The Wise Man's Fear, debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller chart and won the David Gemmell Legend Award. His novels have appeared on NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books list and Locus' Best 21st Century Fantasy Novels list. Pat lives in Wisconsin, where he brews mead, builds box forts with his children, and runs Worldbuilders, a book-centered charity that has raised more than six million dollars for Heifer International. He can be found at patrickrothfuss.com and on Twitter at @patrickrothfuss.
The best epic fantasy I read last year...He's bloody good, this
Rothfuss guy
*George R R Martin*
Patrick Rothfuss' debut is set in an unnamed but fully realised
fantasy world, and his characters are detailed and convincing.
*WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY*
Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep
and intricate and wondrous
*Terry Brooks*
This is a magnificent book
*Anne McCaffrey*
The Name of the Wind has everything: magic and mysteries and
ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely
believable
*Tad Williams*
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
*PUBLISHERS WEEKLY*
It is a rare and great pleasure to find a fantasist writing ...
with true music in the words
*Ursula K Le Guin*
The characters are real and the magic is true
*robin Hobb, New York Times-bestselling author of Assassin’s
Apprentice*
Masterful ... There is a beauty to Pat's writing that defies
description
*Brandon Sanderson, New York Times-bestselling author of
Mistborn*
[Makes] you think he's inventing the genre, instead of reinventing
it
*Lev Grossman, New York Times-bestselling author of The
Magicians*
Hail Patrick Rothfuss! A new giant is striding the land
*Robert J. Sawyer, award-winning author of Wake*
I was reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, and J. R.
R. Tolkein, but never felt that Rothfuss was imitating anyone
*THE TIMES*
This fast-moving, vivid, and unpretentious debut roots its
coming-of-age fantasy in convincing mythology
*ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY*
This breathtakingly epic story is heartrending in its intimacy and
masterful in its narrative essence
*PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review*
Reminiscent in scope of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series ...
this masterpiece of storytelling will appeal to lovers of fantasy
on a grand scale
*LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred)*
Shelve The Name of the Wind beside The Lord of the Rings...and look
forward to the day when it's mentioned in the same breath, perhaps
as first among equals
*The A.V. Club*
"Patrick Rothfuss' debut is set in an unnamed but fully realised
fantasy world, and his characters are detailed and convincing."
*WATERSTONE'S BOOKS QUARTERLY*
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