Arg. Here, I started another series. It's not that I don't finish the other ones, I just get excited about other books and come back to series way later. For this particular series, I'll have to wait until after this year to even begin to think about starting the next book. Well, I might read the second one if I get really far ahead of my goal of a book a week. This book put me behind. I was ahead by 3 days and since Robert Jordan likes to have a million pages with tiny, tiny writing, I would need to be a week ahead to read 700+ pages.Anyway, this is the first book of his Wheel of Time series. I really liked how Jordan started out with seven characters and when they get separated you get three different stories going on at once and they all get pulled together at the end. I know that a lot of people have compared Jordan to Tolkien. I'm not going to. They are too completely different writers and they just so happen to write in the same genre. I like both writers.
Now, you know how I feel about unrealistic happenings and when there are so many characters, how come none of them die? An author FINALLY gets it. Well, by the end you aren't sure about one, but errr I can't really explain it. Maybe because when they got away from danger, it wasn't like something appeared out of thin air and saved them. He kept within the boundaries of this world that he made up.
The only bad thing that I could say is that this is a really long book. BUT Jordan did what he had to and really it's not a bad thing. You write until the story is finished. So, how many more books are in the series? I believe it's twelve more. I'll get around to the rest one day. 4 stars
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