the name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss is about a character named Kvothe, I would describe the writing style as alike to a biography. Kvothe is narrating his life to Chronicler and his student. Kvothe life is to be told over a three day period, the book covers the first day and therefore more of his earlier life (his time in university mostly although there is quite a portion of the book that leads to him getting there). 
 The book is hard to explain and difficult to rate. The characters are complex, Kvothe is highly intelligent and powerful but he has some fatal character flaws. He's arrogant and doesn't think his actions through enough. Then again this makes his character believable. 
 I enjoyed the way Kvothe's past is revealed as events happen in the present, the world is being explained and events for later books are being out in place.