Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Deeply involving fantasy world, system of magic

"Eye of the World" is an excellent beginning to one of the better epic fantasies I've read. Jordan excels at creating a complex, involving world with a real feeling of history. Contributing more to this distinction than perhaps any other aspect of the world is the highly systematized and endlessly fascinating type of "magic," explored very successfully and at great length throughout the series. Battle scenes are also very well written. Characters are somewhat less compelling, especially later in the series, where they often speak and act according to simplistic gender stereotypes. These books can also be stylistically tedious at times, covering and re-covering the same ground; Jordan displays little metaphorical and descriptive inventiveness. But these faults aren't really apparent in "Eye of the World;" just be prepared to deal with them in the later volumes, because once you read "Eye," you'll probably be hooked for good.