Author: Robert Jordan - Translator: Arlette Rosenblaum
Publisher: Pocket (Shores for the 1st edition) - Published: 2005
ISBN: 9782266158237 - Price: 8.10 €
A About the author
Robert Jordan, whose real name James Oliver Rigney, Jr. is an author of fantasy. He began writing in 1977. Under other pen names, he also wrote historical novels (signed Reagan O'Neal) and westerns (signed Jackson O'Reilly). On March 23, 2006, he announced to be suffering from a rare, serious orphan disease, amyloidosis, he followed the treatment could leave him a life expectancy average of 4 years. But September 16, 2007, Robert Jordan was eventually won by the disease. His best known work is The Wheel of Time.
Abstract
Aux-Deux-Rivières, late spring is about to be celebrated when the village is attacked, and when three young men from the village, Rand, Mat, and Perrin, learn that they are pursued by a black jumper. They must take refuge in the company of Tar'Valon Moiraine, the Aes Sedai.
Felt
My first reading of this novel dates back a good ten years. Obviously, in the meantime, I had ample time to forget things. But as the end of the series slowly approaches, and a common reading was given on Livraddict, I decided to get back!
The first striking thing in this novel is the density of information. In fact, you're not in a novel "easy", but in a book which requires concentration, to capture the information that the author gives you in droves. The second is the slow pace of the narrative. The author takes his time here, to describe what is happening, and even that does not happen. In other words, the man slowly put up his world.
is often called the Wheel of Time of a classic fantasy, and yet we can not really say that the characters are caricatures. The three main characters, boys, have one wish, return home as quickly as possible and return to their lives, marry girls, all that. And the daughter said, Egwene dreams of adventure. Surprising, is not it?
In this first book, Rand is actually quite mundane. A boy with great strength, who wants to learn to wield a sword, indeed. But that's all. Mat already attracts more attention in power to act without thinking all the time. While Perrin thinks too much before they act, calmness personified.
Nyaneve, Wisdom, is for me the most intriguing character. We do not know really, except his character, and one can only guess what his true intentions. The Aes Sedai Moiraine and Lan liege are also two mysterious figures, but I have not really touched it in this tome.
In Clearly, in my view, this tome serves more to introduce ourselves a piece of the universe and the characters than anything else. If you like sagas long, complicated, epic and fantasy, please.
Oh, and the flat end of the cutting ax is deplorable. The end of Volume 1 is not an end, shame!
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