Hey, guys!
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a bookish favorites post. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by Meeghan over on Meeghan Reads and is quite simple: check out the topic and write a post with your picks.
Today we’re talking about my favorite books of 2022 so far. However, this year I started reading the Wheel of Time series (so many books, so many pages). That means, apart from one other novel, the WoT books are the only thing I have read this year. I’m currently on the sixth novel, so I decided to simply tell you precisely why I enjoyed each of the five installments I have finished so far!
#1 New Spring
It was actually an accident that I started with this one. New Spring is the prequel novel to the series but I had initially intended to begin with the first actual book. Why? Well, the Amazon adaptation was out and the first season is based on the first book! I wanted to be able to compare. Alas, I ended up starting with the sequel instead and I’m glad I did. New Spring does a lot in terms of world-building and gives you a lot of intel you never learn in the other books (or at least not in the ones I have read so far). I am rather curious by nature and always want answers to my questions, so it really was lucky that I started with New Spring!
#2 The Eye of the World
This is the first actual novel in the series and I was hooked right away. The story is fascinating and I was sucked into the tale from the first page onwards. The book is -well, it’s fantasy, duh – pretty long but I just couldn’t put it down. I think this one is the best indicator of whether you’ll like the series or not. While New Spring gives you a lot of information it feels a little different from the rest, so maybe don’t judge the whole series based on that book – even though I definitely recommend starting there.
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