Pawn of Prophecy

Really good writing, but too slow for my taste. This book is as slow as The Wheel of Time, but the plot seems to be weaker.

About half way into the book and here the following is all that happens:

A young boy goes out into a journey with his aunt and some old storyteller/vagrant guy, both of which may be more then what they appear to be. They are both fleeing from some people and looking for something as well. They are also keeping some secret about the boy's true identity.

It is implied that the people that are looking for the boy, which is a whole race of them (race as in Men of the West from LotR) are known to serve this dark lord of evil, but they live among everyone else as if that is not a problem.