Get Lost in a Good Fantasy Series, Part 7: The Kingkiller Chronicles
The Name of the Wind, the first of the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss, showed itself to the world in 2007.
It was a story that seemed to have every trope and cliché that epic fantasy is expected to have from an old innkeeper named Kvothe telling his tales of yore, to a magician learning the ways of his craft at a magician’s school . . .
. . . And yet there were also facets of the book that made it fascinating and quickly a bestseller, from Kvothe’s abilities and talents as a musician, to some of the amazing characters and friends he has gotten to know, to the magic itself, as they consider themselves arcanists and the magic feels more like a form of science.
The Name of the Wind spent a good long time on the bestseller lists, and earned the epithet: “Harry Potter for Adults.”
Rothfuss took his time with the second book in the trilogy, The Wise Man’s Fear, which was released in 2011, almost a thousand pages long.
But by the end of the book, there still seems too much story to tell.
Do you have any insights into when the next book will come out?