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- Content warnings: Child death, Parental death, Death of loved one, Grief, Murder, Poverty, Childhood trauma, Violence, Abandonment, Bullying, Trauma, Fire, Sexual assault (referenced)
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
Book 1 in The Kingkiller Chronicle
Rothfuss writes prose at a level most fantasy authors never attempt, and Kvothe is one of those rare protagonists who is genuinely brilliant without the book cheating to make him so.
goodreads 4.52/5 1,089,044 ratings
storykind_community 4.2/5 5 ratings
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Length662 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice1/5
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Low
- Intellectual satisfaction
- Scholar/intellectual
- Growth-focused
- Artist/musician
- Book hangover
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- Rogue/scoundrel
Fantasy promise
- Epic fantasy
- Slow burn
- Academy / campus
- High fantasy
- Fae
- Big city / metropolis
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- Academy / school
- Dragons
- Forest / wilderness
Reading experience
- First person
- Medium
- Adventurous
- Lyrical
- Moderate
- High
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- Melancholic
- Immersive
- Introspective
- Poetic
- Atmospheric
- Epic
- Brooding
- Bittersweet
- Page turner
- Slow start explosive finish
- Unputdownable
- Morally complex
- Series binge material
- Traveling caravan
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Book details
- Length
- 662 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
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