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aidan_huddleston 's review for:
The Eye of the World
by Robert Jordan
As someone who loves the fantasy genre, this book series has always been one that I've been meaning to get into, and I was sold on it after watching the show. This first book is definitely what I would consider to be a "world building" book, where the author needs to dump lore and exposition on the reader at the beginning so that they can fully appreciate the story that takes place later. Because of the slow start and some other personal happenings, I set the book down after ~100 pages for half a year. I picked it back up in December when I had more free time and I am glad I did!
After the protagonists set out on their journey, the book became much more interesting to me. The characters had never left their village before so everything they saw was as new to them as it was to me, which I thought was a good way to experience the book and helped me join their adventure. The book differs from the tv show in many ways, and as usual, I found that I liked the book more. Ex: In the show, one of the main characters has a traumatic experience at the beginning that they don't have in the book. If I had to guess, the trauma was added to explain the character's pacificism that they have in the book because they writers felt that the average American watcher couldn't understand why someone wouldn't want to hurt another person unless they had a really good reason for it.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I understand why the show got the backlash it did. Robert Jordan's first book is such a good introduction to the series as a whole and having read almost 500 pages in the last week, I can't think of a single thing I would've changed. The reason this is a 4/5 for me is because of the slow beginning and because I have heard that the series only gets better from here.
After the protagonists set out on their journey, the book became much more interesting to me. The characters had never left their village before so everything they saw was as new to them as it was to me, which I thought was a good way to experience the book and helped me join their adventure. The book differs from the tv show in many ways, and as usual, I found that I liked the book more. Ex: In the show, one of the main characters has a traumatic experience at the beginning that they don't have in the book. If I had to guess, the trauma was added to explain the character's pacificism that they have in the book because they writers felt that the average American watcher couldn't understand why someone wouldn't want to hurt another person unless they had a really good reason for it.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I understand why the show got the backlash it did. Robert Jordan's first book is such a good introduction to the series as a whole and having read almost 500 pages in the last week, I can't think of a single thing I would've changed. The reason this is a 4/5 for me is because of the slow beginning and because I have heard that the series only gets better from here.