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Eye of the World Copy
May. 1st, 2019 19:58![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenzikI'm attempting to track down a novel I picked up at my local library growing up. I don't live anywhere near it now so I can't go and look, and I only read the first few chapters...but here goes.
The cover, which admittedly was the main reason for me to pick the book up, depicted a hunter with a bow overlooking a forested valley. The artwork was really beautiful. It did a good job of fooling me.
The contents of the book were, and this is no exaggeration, an almost 1 to 1 copy of Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. Farm kids, pale riders, the whole shebang. The one thing I remember being different was the Moraine character was a guy, and the Lan character was a girl. Everything else was just short of being word for word.
I know this is basically nothing to go on, but I often find myself wondering if the author was trying to be clever and later on subverted the reader's expectations.
The cover, which admittedly was the main reason for me to pick the book up, depicted a hunter with a bow overlooking a forested valley. The artwork was really beautiful. It did a good job of fooling me.
The contents of the book were, and this is no exaggeration, an almost 1 to 1 copy of Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. Farm kids, pale riders, the whole shebang. The one thing I remember being different was the Moraine character was a guy, and the Lan character was a girl. Everything else was just short of being word for word.
I know this is basically nothing to go on, but I often find myself wondering if the author was trying to be clever and later on subverted the reader's expectations.