This is the prequel to one of my favorite series of all times. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.
This book focuses on Moiraine, at the time that she becomes Aes Sedai. At the time when prophecies are being fulfilled. The Dragon has been reborn. This book starts Moiraine’s quest to find the Dragon Reborn, and her struggle to find this young man prophesied to save the world, and to break it, before the Dark Lord does.
Robert Jordan’s vision of a world where people place blanket stereotypes on groups without ever trying or wanting to know these people mirrors some of the political tensions we face in our day to day life. Jordan masterfully used the cultures of not only the present day world, but of ancient cultures to bring about a world that the reader is drawn into, and wants to keep going back to.
Even being my 9th or 10th reading of the book, I am always finding something new that I missed before in reading. It is books like these that I enjoy re-reading every 18 or so months. I would deffinately recommend this book, and the books that follow to any fantasy savy reader, or someone who wishes to start reading in this genre.
