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dsrtao_The Name of the Wind_, Patrick Rothfuss
The worst criticism I have of this book is that the subtitle, The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day One is accurate. This is book one of N, and the story absolutely does not conclude here.
Apart from that, the salient details: it is a fantasy, not set on Earth, with a pre-Renaissance technology level and an uncommon but powerful set of magics available. There are no smeerps: rabbits act like rabbits and are called the same; horses are for riding and get tired. People act like people.
The book is largely the autobiography of the most famous man in the world, possibly the most powerful magician, who is red-haired and a Gypsy (equivalent) and impossibly good at learning things. He gets in trouble frequently, and it's the sort of trouble that is absolutely believable for an early-teens prodigy.
It is a good thing that we all know that threats don't make authors write faster, or else there would be a mob at Rothfuss's door.
The worst criticism I have of this book is that the subtitle, The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day One is accurate. This is book one of N, and the story absolutely does not conclude here.
Apart from that, the salient details: it is a fantasy, not set on Earth, with a pre-Renaissance technology level and an uncommon but powerful set of magics available. There are no smeerps: rabbits act like rabbits and are called the same; horses are for riding and get tired. People act like people.
The book is largely the autobiography of the most famous man in the world, possibly the most powerful magician, who is red-haired and a Gypsy (equivalent) and impossibly good at learning things. He gets in trouble frequently, and it's the sort of trouble that is absolutely believable for an early-teens prodigy.
It is a good thing that we all know that threats don't make authors write faster, or else there would be a mob at Rothfuss's door.
