The Eye of the World

Great start but a weak ending.

I've finally decided to tip my toes into the WOT, and what a great start. I was told this book was one of the weaker ones with some poor pacing issues. Well if this is one of the weaker ones I can't wait to see more.

I found myself fully invested into the world and our main characters from the very beginning and I did not find it had poor pacing. You basically always had a few chapters of chill chapters followed from some high intensity chapters. So you could rest with some world building between chase scene and chase scene.
The only problem I had was actually the climax. I found it rushed and confusing, but I'll have to reread the ending eventually.

The character cast was a varied one and you will find at least one character to root for (Egwene and Perrin are awesome) and if not at the beginning you will eventually do, as the characters are developed more and more. Just be aware that the beginning is very Rand centric.

I was also told that this is a transition novel from the classical Tolkien esc fantasy to the more modern fantasy we get today and could not agree more with that statement. It does give me a lot of LOTR vibes but IN MY OPINION this book is a lot more readable than LOTR.

I am very excited for this series and can not wait to check the second book.