Book Review: The Name of the Wind

Whew, it’s taken me maybe five months to finish this tome. That’s what happens when I read mostly on subway rides home. Glad I sped up for the final 10% this weekend. Maybe giving up games for Lent will improve my rate for the next book.

( Not really spoilery )

Obviously the most interesting events in Kvothe’s history come in the second and third books. I know the bare outlines of a few of them, and they’re enough to make me want to continue someday after cooling off with shorter works. But some of the few chapters outside of Kvothe’s narration indicate that whether he acknowledges it or not, his time as a hero (or an antihero) is unfinished. Perhaps the best (or worst) is yet to come.