Not too long ago, I wrote a list of modern fantasy books that everyone should be reading. I considered adding Patrick Rothfuss’s first book in the King Killer Chronicles, The Name of the Wind, to the list, but I simply couldn’t justify it. The prose was acceptable but not outstanding, and the plot was interesting but not mesmerizing. However, thanks to a friend’s urging, I stuck with it, and as I’ve read the second book in the series, The Wise Man’s Fear, I find my opinion of Rothfuss’s merits as an author completely changing. I think that Patrick Rothfuss is a modern author to be read and used as a model for both new writers and modern published authors–as well as being really cool to fans who accidentally bump into him at conventions and lose all their words.
Rothfuss signing his second book (via blog.patrickrothfuss.com)
Therefore I Geek 