The Name of the Wind

happy I gave it a second chance

Pros
I really enjoyed the authors writing. The way he introduces the magic system and builds the world was entirely enjoyable.
I love the omnipresence of powerful things lingering, waiting, perhaps watching.
I enjoyed the pacing, things are revealed nice and slow pace and cleverly introduced.
I love how the author writes the life of this character. It's familiar in the way and it is unpredictable, sometimes meandering, much like the way you might hear someone recounting events that happened in their life.

Cons
This is purely personal, but I really don't care for traveling troops, bards, minstrels etc, they just annoy me, I don't know why. Silly but it was something I had to get over and I'm glad I did. I have come to really love the Adema Rue and how that culture defined the main characters life.

Like some of the other reviews I've read, I agree that this story wanders and leaves me wondering why are we here/ what's the purpose of this deviation? When it happened for the second time, I dismissed it as something the author probably did on purpose to reflect how a story would actually be recounted - in a roundabout and somewhat disorganized way. Who knows if that's true?