No Book Club Tuesday?

So I know I missed this weeks Book Club Tuesday and I know that you’re all probably thinking (if anyone actually reads this) that it’s the start of another inactive period, but I promise you all it’s not!

I was working late Tuesday and I had to prepare my house for the cat that we adopted on the Wednesday and the last couple of days have just been spent with her! I’ve fallen in love with Auri (as she has just been named this second) and I’ve been in a kitty bubble.

Book Club Tuesday will continue as normal from next week as well as any other posts. I will also be starting Movie Monday next week as well so you guys get two posts in a week! Lucky you! However, I might move Book Club to Thursday instead of Tuesday so that posts are spread out throughout the week and aren’t spammed on you guys. (again, if anyone actually reads this)

Catch you guys soon!

Book Club Tuesday: The Name of the Wind

Book Club Tuesday! I’m a little bit late but I’ve just gotten in from work and it’s still Tuesday so I have met my deadline!

So obviously – for my first book review since being back – I’m going to write about one of the best fantasy books I have ever read. (I’m totally not biased. This review will totally be unbiased. Totally.)

The Name of the Wind is a wonderful book written by Patrick Rothfuss. It follows the story of Kvothe… without giving too much away, it’s about Kvothe and his life as well as the place that it’s set. Kvothe is a beautifully complicated, wonderfully tragic and brilliantly written character. This book has the ability to rope you in to the point where you literally – and I mean literally, I got cramps – can not put it down. It’s the type of book and place and characters that you were wish were real. There’s a lot of books that I wish were real, and so do many others, but if I had to pick one it would be The Name of the Wind. No doubt.

It does start off a bit slow but it is so worth it. There are so many wonderfully written characters, so many plot twists that you don’t see coming. There’s so much information that you have to digest, there’s a lot of details that you don’t think are important that go on to be so SO important.

The book is set in flashbacks in a way? As I said above, it follows the story of Kvothe. Kvothe in present time is an inn keeper, he’s forgotten who he is (not literally, just figuratively) which, by the way, he’s a legend. He’s approached by The Chronicler who wants to write his story… this is where it starts. We read his story as told by Kvothe and written by The Chronicler.

The only fault that I have with this book is that it’s an unfinished trilogy and has been for the last seven years and there’s no publish date for book three or no signs of it even being remotely close to being finished. I don’t want to push a writer to write something that has so much work going into it and as much as I love this trilogy, I know that good things come to those who wait and if he’s pushed it’ll be rushed and not the books that we know and love.

I really recommend reading The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear as they are amazing books, you will fall in love and cry tears of laughter, joy and sorrow. These books with change you… BUT if you’re not good at waiting, and hate cliffhangers and rather read finished series, you might have to wait a while.

The Kingkiller Chronicles (as they are also known) are wonderfully written, beautifully set and is one of the best series’ I have ever read. It’s only flaw is that it isn’t finished and we don’t know when it will be. If you want to read and can wait, pick up this book it will be the best decision you have ever made. I promise you.