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🐉 Fantasy

The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss
📅 2007 🏢 Plaza & Janés 📄 893 pages ⏱️ ~16 h 22 min read 🔖 ISBN 9788401352836
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📖 Synopsis

The story of Kvothe, the world's most feared wizard, told in first person with dazzling prose. An epic fantasy of richness and originality that few have matched.

✍️ ChatZona's review

Rothfuss writes with a hypnotic cadence: every sentence feels calibrated, every detail deliberate. Kvothe is a protagonist who talks himself up constantly, which will either irritate or captivate depending on the reader. The worldbuilding is among fantasy's most elaborate, with a magic system that feels genuinely real. The problem: the trilogy has been unfinished for years with no sign of a conclusion. A risk worth taking if you let yourself sink into the world.

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