I’ll try and make this short… I love a good fantasy book and a new one titled “The Will of the Many” just came out and is getting excellent reviews. However many of the reviews on Goodreads are comparing it to “The Name of the Wind” which is on a short list of books I stopped halfway through because I thought it was damn near unreadable for reasons not worth going into here… I’m looking to see if anyone here has read both books and felt that I would possibly like “The Will of the Many” despite detesting The “Name of the Wind”
Thank you!
by Affectionate-Flan-99
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tl/dr: It is different from Name of the Wind
I have read both. Short answer: The writing styles and stories are different enough, so it’s worth a try. You are right though, the template is disturbingly familiar. Will of the Many, Name of the Wind, Babel, Vita Nostra, Percy. The whole “lonely kid with special talents goes to magic school” thing is being done to death – thanks Harry Potter!
Your phrasing is interesting becasue I actually liked The Name of the Wind better, though at this point I can barely remember reading it 10+ years ago. In that book I liked the journey and character development.
The Will of the Many felt like a standard fantasy book to me and I’m a bit surprised by its high Goodreads rating – 4.5 or something. BUT you have to take what I say with a grain of salt. I’m female and get bored really, really fast with male characters in an 800 page book. You might like this particular world.
A better litmus test might be Red Rising. If you liked that book with its progression and the occational fight scene, you might like this longer version.