If you wanted to be really extra, you could start with the prequel, then read them in chronological order. It actually might help if you’re following along with the Amazon Prime series adaptation of The Wheel of Time, since season one adapts characters and storylines from both the first book in the series and the prequel.

Although the show is scrambling the events from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time book series a bit, these episodes did a good job of making that change relatively seamless without lo

There’s a pattern to the way I watch Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time that’s still firmly in place three seasons on. I spend the first two or three episodes getting all worked up by how much showrunner Rafe Judkins and his cast and crew have strayed from Robert Jordan’s novels.