The Eye Of The World

Title:  The Eye Of The World
Author: Robert Jordan
Pages: 782
Recommended Ages: 15 and Up
Rating: 5 Brads

     The Eye Of The World is a wonderful story told by Robert Jordan.  The Eye Of The World is the first book in a series of 14 books written by Robert Jordan, and after his death another who using Jordan's notes and with the blessing of Jordan's wife.  As we meet a small country village out of the way of the world. The home of Rand, Mat and Perrin, couple of young guys, who seem to find more trouble than their fair share, would have never thought that their lives would ever amount to more than farming and living the simple life.  In one night all that changes as the Aes Sadai shows up for their annual festival, with her warder followed by a gleeman and of course the anticipated peddler.  In what is for sure to be a night remembered for ever in the small village, evil confronts and Rand, Mat and Perrin have no choice but to flee with the only person who has any chance of saving their lives. Running for their lives, trying to get to the White Tower where a vast of the Aes Sedais live, and teaming up with friends, from their village they trek across the known lands to find out what the Dark One wants with one or all three of the boys.  Friendships are put to the test. Loves are tried and tested. New friendships made and broken, and old friends are found to be anything but trust worthy.
      Robert Jordan is an exceptionally great writer.  His attention to detail not only puts the reader right in the thick of things, but leaves the reader easily able to picture everything from lay of the land to the slightest smiles on a person's face.  You will no doubt fall in love with more than one or two of the characters during the books.  The distaste you'll come to have for other characters will grow as much as the love for your favorites. Jordan has a way of captivating you from the first words to the book to the very last words, and will have you craving to read the next book as soon as you close the cover.
     I recommend this book for people over 15, but, if you have an advanced reader of ages 10 and up, you can rest assured this book will captivate them as well.  They may loose interest in the details is the only bad thing.  The violence in the book isn't all that bad, and not taken to the extreme and the language is something any parent can say, now there's a clean book.  When the worst swear word a person can say is Light, you know that Jordan took care to make sure this was a family book.  So if you are looking for a book that will challenge your imagination, send you on a world that rivals Middle Earth with Characters that will grab your heart and rooting from page one, then The Eye Of The World is the book you are looking for.

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