Edmund Bruning’s Reviews > The Eye of the World > Status Update

“ The Wheel of Time weaves the Pattern of the Ages, and lives are the threads it weaves. No one can tell how the thread of his own life will be woven into the pattern, or how the thread of a people will be woven.”

“What they did not see, they could ignore; but they did not see was not really there”

I love how the dark friends are “regular” people who seem to be in a trance who does the dark ones bidding. Kind of reminds me of a classic vampire story where the people are turned by the main baddie and do his bidding but you can tell there’s something else there deep down. Also liking the journey with mat and Rand, going to each town, escaping baddies and getting better at the flute and juggling

I like that we’re finally splitting characters up, saw this inevitability for a little bit as a natural way to flesh out some characters and it’s happening wonderfully. Love the dynamic btn Nynaeve and Moiraine, and we’re finally getting some fleshed out distinction for Mat and Perrin. Obviously still some great similarities between this + LOTR, I can tell the similarities aren’t going to be around for long

Pretty awesome so far. Some pretty close connections to LOTR obviously. Moiraine is a badass.

Here we go