Many joke that he’s playing chicken with George R.
Nearly a decade later, we’re still waiting. That was just four years after book one, so most of us fans expected book three to hit the shelves sometime around 2015. The Wise Man’s Fear, book two, was published in 2011. The Wise Man’s Fear fell far short of everyone’s expectations, but as it’s meant to be book two of three, we’re all hoping it’s just “middle book syndrome” and that The Doors of Stone will be better. The Name of the Wind absolutely deserves all of the awards and acclaim it got.
His world is vast and complex, his magic systems are well defined, and his characters are so captivating. Rothfuss has been praised as this generation’s Tolkein. This means that not only are we currently left on a cliffhanger in terms of finding out how Kvothe became Kote, book two ends in the same way book one did, with Kvothe going off to bed and Chronicler wishing they would work through the night so he could be on his way (as he’s already late for his meeting with the king.) This book is what Kvothe shares on the first day, The Wise Man’s Fear is what he shares on the second day, and The Doors of Stone will be what he shares on the third day.
A scribe known as Chronicler has discovered him, and Kvothe agrees to share his story if Chronicler will stay for three days and hear the whole thing at once.
The Name of the Wind is written from two points in time, Kvothe’s present hiding in plain sight as tavern owner Kote, and Kvothe’s past, starting just before the loss of his Ruh troupe and family and following him into his studies at the university. This is book one of what is meant to be the King Killer Chronicles trilogy, which itself is meant to be just the introduction to a rich and vast literary universe. For those who are unfamiliar, Patrick Rothfuss is an American author famous for absolutely taking off with his debut high fantasy novel The Name of the Wind, published in 2007.
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