The Eye of the World

A stunning start to an epic fantasy series, I enjoyed it from start to finish. The characters and world are detailed and believable with an interesting and mysterious magic system that works well. The book is tolkein-esque in it's depth.

At one point the characters in the party the book follows split up, which initially had me groaning initially, as some of the characters I liked distinctly less then others. However, Jordan managed to make ALL of the characters interesting to me, even those I at first didn't like as much, which was astonishing as I had been dreading the chapters after the characters went their separate ways.

Overall, I was very pleased I finally decided to give the series a chance, and I'll be continuing on to the second book immediately.