What I’m reading : Name of the Wind

The rural Waystone Inn is tended by a humble innkeeper, Kote — but peril stalks the land, and a pursuer of legend has followed stories of an infamous adventurer, Kvothe. Those stories have led him to Kote, who proposes to tell him his life-story over the course of three days.

The Name of the Wind, published in 2007, was the first volume in what author Patrick Rothfuss envisioned as a trilogy. It was followed by The Wise Man’s Fear, in 2011, but The Doors of Stone, third book in the series, remains “forthcoming” as of 2021. While fans wait, the earlier books are worth being read again, for the depth and richness of the story.