If you're looking for a new fantasy series to lose yourself in for a bit, you might find yourself searching out recommendations from other bookworms with similar taste. Luckily, thousands of Goodreads users voted for the "Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century," and the award-winning novel at the top of the list definitely won't disappoint anyone who decides to crack it open.
At the very top of a list of over 3,000 books was the 2007 bestseller The Name of the Wind, the first novel in the ongoing trilogy The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss.
Described on the site as an "the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen," the book has been hailed as a masterpiece, winning both fans (including George RR Martin, Michael Chabon, and Ursula Le Guin) and awards, including the Quill Award, the Alex Award, and the distinction of "Best Book of the Year" in 2007 from Publisher's Weekly (in the category of Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror).
View this post on InstagramThe Name of the Wind has an average rating of 4.52 stars on Goodreads, where there's no lack of glowing reviews.
"As an avid adult fantasy reader, out of all the books that I’ve been recommended, The Name of the Wind has always been recommended to me the most," one person wrote, going on to add, "and now that I’ve read it, it’s in my opinion that the fame is totally well deserved; there’s no doubt that this is truly a fantastic high fantasy book."
"This is why I love fantasy so much," declared a second fan. "After a recent string of okay fantasy novels, a couple of good ones but nothing to get really excited about, I've rediscovered my passion thanks to this book. I'm so impressed, and so in love, I can't begin to describe it."
Patrick Rothfuss called his first attempts at writing a fantasy novel a 'trainwreck'
In a 2016 interview with Wired (shared oh his official website), Rothfuss opened up about the struggles he went through trying to find his voice as a writer and avoiding too many "familiar fantasy tropes."
"When I started writing this book, I was trying to not write the novel that I wrote in high school, which was a trainwreck of bad decisions," Rothfuss admitted.
"That novel was a lot of fantasy cliches mashed up in a very unappealing structure," he continued. "So I wanted this story to be something a little new and a little different. But at the same time, I wanted it to be familiar and warm and exciting in nostalgic ways. That was a hard needle to thread."
"I wanted the story to feel really real, almost like a biography, or an autobiography," Rothfuss added. "And real stories are messy. They're sloppy and unsatisfying. But I also wanted it to feel gratifying in terms of being a novel, being a story, being a piece of entertainment. Again, those were two really antithetical goals that I set out for myself. And it made my life a hell for 15 years."
Clearly, the author's hard work paid off.
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