The prologues are FAMOUS for being extremely long (some are near 80 pages) and all about tertiary characters that you have never heard of before. well, you will love some of them and be totally annoyed by others.
The world is intricate and interesting, the characters are. Just to give you a ballpark measuring rod.
#LORD OF RINGS EYE SERIES#
Most first books in series are around 150K words. Where Tolkien can be difficult to read because he uses a more archaic language, Jordan can be difficult to read because he's just extremely wordy. Doesn't mean WOT isn't any good, it's just very different. But I could say the same about The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, so, if you loved those, I don't see why you can't enjoy these books too.Īnyways, to answer your question I can't say if it's actually "as good as" LotR, but it's definitely an amazing Fantasy series and absolutely worth reading if you're a fan of Epic Fantasy. In other words, they require a lot of dedication from the reader. They are all very long, with literally hundreds of named characters and thousands of years of history.
Seriously, by the end of book 2 I was addicted. Sure, there are a couple of weak entries in the middle, but, as a whole, The Wheel of Time is a masterpiece. That said, The Wheel of Time is one of my all-time favorite book series. Fortunately, the series quickly developes its own identity, and the rest of the series offers a remarkable amount of originality. There are quite a few similarities between this first book and LotR, and I (being a huge Tolkien fan) found myself bothered by this at first. The Eye of the Wold is one of said novels. He redefined the genre, and almost every Fantasy novel takes something from The Lord of the Rings in a way or another. It's hard to compare any Fantasy book to Tolkien's works.
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