Book Review: Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World

After some hesitation, I finally decided to start listening to Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Series.  I hesitated because it is a 14 book series (including a prequel) and each of the audio books range from 20 to over 40 hours long.  Its going to take a long time for me to get through the series!

I completed the first book, The Eye of the World.  The publisher's summary is:

When their village is attacked by trollocs, monsters thought to be only legends, three young men, Rand, Matt, and Perrin, flee in the company of the Lady Moiraine, a sinister visitor of unsuspected powers. Thus begins an epic adventure set in a world of wonders and horror, where what was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

The book is packed with adventure and intrigue, although sometimes a bit confusing as I listened while running.  There are many characters and keeping who was a member of which group was a bit difficult.  Luckily though, I was able to come back after runs and look at Encyclopedia WOT for chapter summaries.  

I would recommend this one for running. As you can tell from the summary, there were many scenes where the main characters were fleeing, making it easy to picture myself in their shoes while running. The whole book was a grand adventure that was able to keep me wanting to get out for the next run so that I could find out what would happen next!