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A review by mollymortensen
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
4.0
I've had this book on my shelf since high school. My little sister actually borrowed and read it when she was in high school. She thought it was really good, but said it got dark after a few books, and that made me not want to read them.
POVs: Lew's Therin (prologue) Rand al'Thor, Perrin, Nynaeve, and one paragraph by Moiraine.
It starts rather slowly. (After that odd prologue) But it only takes a few chapters for the action to start. Then we go on a long, long journey. I don't usually like traveling in books, but this one was well written at least. Starting with lots of action and skipping ahead when necessary and including important conversations and information to break it up. He's obviously a good writer.
It got a bit long in the middle. At least the added POVs helped but I got rather sick of all of the repeated obstacles. I didn't realize that the entire 800 page book would be their journey. Most of it was entertaining enough, but there was about 100 pages of just Rand and Mat that were torture! Dark, and depressing, and boring!!
I don't know how I feel about Rand. I mean, he's fine. Kinda boring. He's your typical good guy. The small town farmer's son that I've read about a hundred times. And he was often rather stupid.
I didn't like any of the other characters. Mat was obnoxious and stupid. I swear he only existed to get them into trouble. Perrin had zero personality besides coward before he got a POV. Then he improved a bit. He's still not my favorite but at least he's not quite so boring. Egwene's story had promise but she was just so annoying! Always so bossy and high and mighty I know best. Nynaeve, the Wisdom, was so prejudiced against the Aes Sedai it took over her whole character and just made her nasty.
Moiraine and Lan were interesting at least, but we don't get to know them very well. I was never sure if they were trustworthy. My favorite was probably Thom, the gleeman or storyteller, but he was a rather minor character compared to the others.
I realized when all our characters were separated and in grave danger that I didn't really care what happened to any of them. Never a good sign.
The world building is terrific. It feels like he wrote an entire series before this one with its rich history.
Will I read the next books? Since my sister owns them all, I probably will eventually but not right now.
Continuity error. A farmer gives them scarves on page 496, but Rand mentioned the scarves and the man on page 455. Sorry, this kind of thing annoys me.
POVs: Lew's Therin (prologue) Rand al'Thor, Perrin, Nynaeve, and one paragraph by Moiraine.
It starts rather slowly. (After that odd prologue) But it only takes a few chapters for the action to start. Then we go on a long, long journey. I don't usually like traveling in books, but this one was well written at least. Starting with lots of action and skipping ahead when necessary and including important conversations and information to break it up. He's obviously a good writer.
It got a bit long in the middle. At least the added POVs helped but I got rather sick of all of the repeated obstacles. I didn't realize that the entire 800 page book would be their journey. Most of it was entertaining enough, but there was about 100 pages of just Rand and Mat that were torture! Dark, and depressing, and boring!!
I don't know how I feel about Rand. I mean, he's fine. Kinda boring. He's your typical good guy. The small town farmer's son that I've read about a hundred times. And he was often rather stupid.
I didn't like any of the other characters. Mat was obnoxious and stupid. I swear he only existed to get them into trouble. Perrin had zero personality besides coward before he got a POV. Then he improved a bit. He's still not my favorite but at least he's not quite so boring. Egwene's story had promise but she was just so annoying! Always so bossy and high and mighty I know best. Nynaeve, the Wisdom, was so prejudiced against the Aes Sedai it took over her whole character and just made her nasty.
Moiraine and Lan were interesting at least, but we don't get to know them very well. I was never sure if they were trustworthy. My favorite was probably Thom, the gleeman or storyteller, but he was a rather minor character compared to the others.
I realized when all our characters were separated and in grave danger that I didn't really care what happened to any of them. Never a good sign.
The world building is terrific. It feels like he wrote an entire series before this one with its rich history.
Will I read the next books? Since my sister owns them all, I probably will eventually but not right now.
Continuity error. A farmer gives them scarves on page 496, but Rand mentioned the scarves and the man on page 455. Sorry, this kind of thing annoys me.