About the book
In the Third Age, known as the Age of Prophecy, the Dark One, held prisoner by the Creator, is stirring, and the world itself hangs in the balance. Robert Jordan's high fantasy novel, which opens The Wheel of Time series, begins in Emond's Field, a village in the Two Rivers. A mysterious noblewoman, Moiraine Damodred, arrives just before monstrous Trollocs attack. She turns out to be an Aes Sedai, and she warns that the Dark One's servants are after one of three young men: Matrim Cauthon, Perrin Aybara or Rand al'Thor. With Egwene al'Vere, they leave with Moiraine and her Warder, Lan. Jordan said he intended its early chapters to evoke Tolkien's Shire from The Lord of the Rings.
Malcolm Tan, founder of Gravitas Holdings, said The Wheel of Time was the series that hooked him on fiction, citing its epic scale and well-drawn protagonists. Mike Benkovich, founder of Anatomonics, recommended the whole 14-book series for its sheer scale.
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This book has 2 recommendations
Mike Benkovich (Founder/Anatomonics)
I'm cheating here (again) because this isn't a single book but a series. This is a 14 book fantasy epic written over DECADES! It took so long to complete and is so expansive the author died before he finished. The mantle was picked up by another author who finished the series in 2014. It's a story of massive scale featuring or launching any fantasy trope you can think of. If you think Game Of Thrones is good you will love this.
Malcolm Tan (Founder/Gravitas Holdings)
The fiction series that got me hooked was The Wheel of Time series. Every time a new book was published in that LONG series, I immediately got hold of a copy from the bookstore and would spend the next few days reading the books since they were incredibly long. What appealed to me was the epic scale of the series, and how the various protagonists were very well characterised and captured my attention and imagination.
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