Book Review: The Name Of The Wind, Patrick Rothfuss

Book Review: The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss

My Review in a Tweet:

I haven't been this enraptured, this mesmerized, this captivated by a book in years, and I don't say that lightly. It's great on every aspect you could think of, and then some other you couldn't even conjure. Can't believe I neglected it for so long. Highly recommended if you like fantasty of any kind.

My Full Review:

I had it sitting on my bookshelves for months before I decided to start reading this book. It felt menacing, despite it being the pocket edition. The sheer volume, the brickness of it felt like a challenge I hadn't the courage to face.

But once I did, I realized the real danger was being unable to let it go: I was prisoner of the author, being held by his marvelous ability to thread the story of Kvothe in seamless chapters, that natural the flow of the story felt, you couldn't even tell where he jumped from present to past and back.

The vivid images still dance in my mind hours after I finished reading the book. I rushed past the other reviews I had pending so I could write this one because I neded to talk about it. My copy of the book was a present from a friend so I texted her inmediately, but that didn't suffice, I had to write longer than all caps screaming to each other.

The rich world the author builds feels vast and mysterious, with a lot of hidden things lurking just beneaht the surface waiting for both the writer and the reader to discover them. I really hope (haven't looked it up yet) that there are books in the vein of the Silmarillion and Tom Bombadil where the myths and tales of this universe are further expanded.

The prose of Rothfuss is so elegant, filled with clever descriptions and unexpected analogies that not even the most fictitious elements of his story remain ungraspable to the reader.

The characters are so diverse and interesting: each and every one of them leaves a perdurable memory, no matter how brief and casual their impact and presence on the story is.

Kvothe is our main character, but he gets to be a narrator of his own story whenever we dive into his past, becoming a somewhat unreliable narrator. The whole book feels like that: we as readers submerging in the story narrated by Kvothe himself, gasping for air during the interlusions where the omniscient narrator takes the job back to move the story in the present time.

A wonderful work of worldbuilding, characterization and narration only hindered by the bittersweet taste of finishing the book eager for more. I hope to get my hands on the sequel soon, but I probably should let this world rest a little before diving in it again.

9/10.

My other 2023 Readings.

Well, I was planning on reading Dracula for Halloween/October too but it was a little more dense and longer, I had to work and then I had a trip for a week, so I didn't manage to finish it on time. Maybe I'll read it in-between other stuff this month, but I'm also preparing for final exams so I don't know haha

I didn't have time for pics either this week, I'll see what I come up with

felt cute, here's a bday selfie :)

Today, I offer you this. Tomorrow, probably nothing.

And with those two last books/reviews, I finish this year's reading list. 30 books doesn't sound bad at all, I hope I can read that many and maybe some more next year!

📚 Mis lecturas del 2023 📚

¡Hola!

Lo venía haciendo en Twitter y decidí darle un mejor formato y mayor espacio, así que acá están mis lecturas de este año, en el orden en que fui terminando los libros.

Algunos los arranqué antes pero los pausé y continué con otro. Están clasificados y ordenados según la fecha en la que los terminé.

Enero:

Le Guin, Úrsula K. (1976) El Nombre del Mundo es Bosque. Editorial Minotauro

Albertalli, B. y Silvera, A. (2018) What if it's us

Klune, T. J. (2020) The House in the Cerulean Sea

Klune, T. J. (2020-2022) The Extraordinaries, Flash Fire, Heat Wave

Febrero/Marzo:

Continué lecturas, pero no terminé ningún libro, estaba preparando finales.

Abril:

Hall, Alexis (2020) Boyfriend Material

Doyle, Arthur C. (1902) El Sabueso de los Baskerville. Editorial Salvat.

Dick, Philip K. (1988) Cuentos Completos I: Aquí Yace el Wub

Hall, Alexis (2022) Husband Material

Mayo:

Marcos, Álvaro (2021) El Mago Merlín y el Poder del Dragón

Hall, Alexis (2022) Paris Daillencourt is about to Crumble

El-Motar, Amar, Gladstone, Max (2019) This is How you Lose the Time War

Miller, F., Janson, K., Varley, L. (1986) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Editorial OVNI.

Lewis, R., Mazzuchelli, D., Miller, F. (1988) Batman: Año Uno. Editorial OVNI.

LeBlanc, Maurice (1907) Arsène Lupin: Caballero Ladrón. Editorial Salvat.

Junio:

Dick, Philip K. (1989) Cuentos completos II: La Segunda Variedad.

Julio:

Silvera, Adam (2022) The First to Die at the End

Jemas, B., Bendis, B. M., Bagley, M., Thibert, A., Buccellato, S., Javins, M. (2001-2002) Spiderman, Poder y Responsabilidad. Marvel Comics. Editorial Salvat.

Álvaro, Marcos (2021) El Mago Merlín en la Torre Oscura

Agosto:

Machado, Antonio. (1899-1939) Poemas Esenciales. Selección de Jesús García Sánchez. Editorial Salvat.

Septiembre:

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1894) El Club de los Suicidas. Editorial Salvat.

Octubre:

Wells, Herbert George (1897) El Hombre Invisible.

Shelley, Mary (1818) Frankenstein, o el Moderno Prometeo

Capullo, G., Kubert, A., Lee, J., Snyder, S., Romita Jr., J. (2017-2018) Dark Nights: Metal. DC Comics. Editorial OVNIPRESS.

Noviembre:

Dick, Philip K (1989) El Padre-Cosa

Diciembre:

Millar, M. Kubert, A. & A. (2001-2002) Marvel Ultimave: X-Men. Men of Tomorrow. Return to Weapon X. Editorial Salvat.

Rothfuss, P. (2007) The Name of the Wind. DAW Books.

Cortázar, J. (2023) Historias de Cronopios y de Famas. 9a Edición. Buenos Aires, Punto de Lectura Editorial.

Arlt, R. (1926) El Juguete Rabioso. CAPÍTULO Biblioteca Fundamental Argentina. Centro Editor de América Latina.

what's the OF....? :)

Like any true hero, I send my nudes out for FREE. To people who have tricked me into thinking we have an emotional connection!