I'm a big fan of Robert Jordan. I've read New Spring before and I'll likely read it again. It's the prequel to the Wheel of Time series. Honestly, it doesn't add anything to the plot of the series. It's more a character piece of Moiraine and her Warder, Lan.
One of the things I really enjoy about Jordan is the rich background in which he's chosen to set his world. Reading the series there's always the sense that what has happened in the character's pasts has an effect on what they are doing in the present. And the feeling is that Robert Jordan knows what those events are. The meeting of Moiraine and Lan, her bonding of him and the beginning of her quest are all things that play an important part in the Wheel of Time but were more implied until this novel was released.
Moirane and Lan are younger in this book. Less sure of themselves in some ways and more arrogant in others. The ending of the story is known but there's great fun in getting there. It's a 4 for me.
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