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The Path of Daggers | Rating | |
| A | |||
| Robert Jordan | |||
| Series | Related Books | ||
| The Wheel of Time | The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, New Spring, The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadow Rising, The Fires of Heaven, Lord of Chaos, A Crown of Thorns, The Path of Daggers, Winter's Heart, Crossroads of Twilight, Knife of Dreams | ||
Sometimes, rereading a book for the sake of making these reviews results in some surprising revelations. The first time I read this book, when it first came out in 1998, I distinctly remember being disappinted. More than disappointed, disgusted. I recall closing the book and wondering what the heck I just read, wondering if anything had really happened at all. 600 pages of nothing, was my conclusion, and for years I've said book eight just sucks.
Now I reread it, and I find it's a lot better than I thought. Better than nome other books in the series, by far. Better than one or two I've given A's to!
The reason is that not only do important things happen in these pages - each book has important things happen - but that they happen all over. Not constantly, of course, but the book starts right in with the use of the Bowl of the Winds, and then the Seanchan return, and then... well. There are fewer plot threads here than in the last few books, most of them hinging around Elayne, Egwene, or Rand. There are several areas of out-and-out battle, not just conflict, including a long one with Rand pitting himself against the Seanchan.
I'm happy to say that I've been wrong all these years. This is a good book, and not one to miss. Course, if you're reading the series, you don't want to miss any, but you get the idea.
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