The Eye of the World

I really liked this book, and I hope that I will love The Wheel of Time. (Also, big fan of BookTuber Daniel Green :).)

It starts off very Tolkien-esque, which Robert Jordan admits was intentionally–him wanting to pursue a more “realistic” take on Tolkien. However, Jordan deviates from the Tolkien after the first third, going into more unique ideas (at least to my eyes, it has been a long time since I last read this).

I love the book, because of the characters and world (I'm not really a plot guy).

There are criticisms of course, the pacing feels a bit off for me. It's not a huge problem for me, but I felt it got too slow at some parts, and then quickened. For private reasons, I was not able to have a consistent reading schedule (and for the past few days I was too lazy to read at all), and I think that this might be the cause of this particular criticism, but I feel it to be true.

Secondly, though I haven't ventured far enough into Jordan to fully experience it, but Jordan sure loves his descriptions and info dumps. It isn't a big problem for me, yet (as I love info-dumps, and am quite forgiving of them)–I have a feeling that after 13 more books, or however many I decide to read, I will tire out.

4 stars because of enjoyment and the fact that I would recommend this (to be given at least a chance).