"This is a MAGNIFICENT book, a really fine story, highly readable and engrossing. I compliment young Pat...his first novel is a GREAT one... Wow!" --Anne McCaffrey, The New York Times bestselling author of The Dragonriders of Pern

 

"This fast-moving, vivid, and unpretentious debut roots its coming-of-age fantasy in convincing mythology." --Entertainment Weekly

 

"Is is a rare and great pleasure to find a fantasist writing not only with the accuracy of language that is essential to fantasy-making, but with true music in the words as well. Wherever Pat Rothfuss goes with the big story that begins with The Name of the Wind, he'll carry us with him as a good singer carries us through a song." --Ursula K. Le Guin, bestselling author of The Wizard of Earthsea

 

"Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!" --Kevin J. Anderson, The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Hunters of Dune

 

"Hail Patrick Rothfuss! A new giant is striding the land. The Name of the Wind is an astonishing novel that just happens to be the writer's first. The bestsellers' lists and the award ballots are beckoning toward Rothfuss, and readers will be clamoring for more of the riveting life story of Kvothe, Bravo, I say! Bravo!" --Roger J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Rollback

 

"One of the things I like best about this book is that the magic is absolutely rooted in the book's world. Nothing seems contrived; the consistency is excellent. The characters are very well realized. That means that when the protagonist does something clever, it's believable. And when he does something youthfully dumb, it rings just as authentically true. Because the characters are real and the magic is true to its own world, I closed this book feeling as if I'd been on a journey with an entertaining new friend, rather than sitting alone looking at words on a page. This one is well worth some of your precious reading time. I'll wager that the books to follow it will also be." --Robin Hobb, The New York Times bestselling author of The Farseer Trilogy

 

"The Name of the Wind is a rare fid these days, fit for lovers of fantasy and newcomers to the genre alike. It fires the imagination and stirs the heart. In Pat Rothfuss's sure hands, the reader will experience a journey to the very heights of fantasy. I for one never wanted to come back down." --Sean Williams, The New York Times bestselling author of The Blood Debt

 

"This is an exciting and intelligent fantasy debut. Rothfuss clearly knows exactly what he's doing. Once I started reading, I didn't want to put The Name of the Wind down, and when I did I kept thinking about the world and the characters and worrying about what was going to happen to them." --Jo Walton, World Fantasy Award Winner of Tooth and Claw