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Summary: Great book but needs to pick up the pace.
Review: First off I would like to say all of Robert Jordans books are wonderful pieces of fantasy that completely engross me more than anything else. Annoyingly though Jordan has slowed down the plot to a crawl. The more books the better some would say but when you have to wait 1-2 years for each new book it gets more than somewhat frustrating. I think Jordan has to really speed things up again and stop focusing on blasted Elayne and Nynaeve so much. I don't need all the pointless detail. Does it really take 150 pages to explain useing the bowl of the winds. Jordan has somewhat lopsided the Path of Daggers. We have way too much detail about Nynaeve , Elayne , while we know nothing of what happened to Mat. I was also really looking forward to Rand finally meeting Elayne again but of course we get nothing on that. I was hoping that he would get a farther with Egwene than just declaring war on Eladia. All in all it feels as if Jordan is really stretching this thing out. I think you have to be able to give so much to satisfy the reader and Jordan just hasn't been doing that with his recent books. There are four main things I hope Jordan is able to fufill in his next book. One , Rand meets Elayne. Two , Focus much less on Elayne and Nynaeve and focus more on Mat and Rand. Three , Have finally some conflict and possibly resolution with Egwene and White Tower. Four , PICK UP THE PACE!! If Jordan fulfills these goals his next book will be absolutely grand.
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Summary: another paycheck for jordan
Review: It seems as if the wheel of time has run out of forward momentum. Nothing happens in Path of Daggers except for more inane bickering between increasingly one dimensional characters. Even the description in the jacket promises action that never happens. This series is beginning to read more like a comedy of manners than serious fantasy . I hope Jordan uses the money he "earns" from this book and takes some time off to consider the future of the series. I wouldn't reccomend Path of Daggers, except if you've taken the time to read the previous 8. Wait for the paperback, so at least you won't waste as much money.
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Summary: OK, where's the REAL book????
Review: I am disappointed that this book lacks the fire and passion of the other seven titles. There truly is not much substance to book 8, just a lot of moving around and jockeying for position amongst the various characters. Hopefully, Book 9 will be out soon and be chock full of goodies for all of us WoT fans to devour. I have been a fan of the WoT series since the very beginning, and am quite disappointed with a lack of action in this book that I have come to expect from Jordan's works. Don't keep us waiting too long now, Mr. Jordan... As always, I hungrily await the next book.
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Summary: quit milking it, RJ
Review: I am getting sick of waiting for nothing. Finish the thing already. You just wrote a 600 page prologue.
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Summary: Jordan has completely derailed this series
Review: I have been disappointed with the course of this series over the last four books. Through Shadow Rising, Jordan had created one of the most epic and fantastic series ever written. Then came book 5, book 6, and the ghastly Crown of Swords. The two year wait between 7 and 8 was long, but I didn't have a problem with it as long as he got the series back on track. Sadly that is not the case. Path of Daggers is the worst book of the series. Nothing happens in this book. Let me repeat: NOTHING!!! There's no confrontation. The characters crawl towards their goals, but Jordan seeminly wants to drag this out as long as possible. The characters have been reduced to flat two-dimensional stooges. All the women are simpering idiots or manipulative. Do we need to read 150+ pages of Eg and Ny and Av arguing with other women? What happened to Perrin? He spent all of his time in this book arguing with his wife. Rand mopes and moans and is BORING!!!! And Mat is nowhere to be found. Even Min has been reduced to pining for Rand and sighing over how much she wants to get him in bed.
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Summary: The never-ending story!
Review: I really liked the first few books of this series but I am sick and tired of the continued plot expansion and little action that has developed since then. After plowing through 600 plus pages of the latest book it occurred to me that nothing of substance happened. END
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Summary: Could have been better.
Review: This is still a good book written with Jordan's superb style. However, I expected far more, because this whole series is getting rather lengthy with no end in site. Again, Jordan spins far too many plot threads without resolving much in this book. I get the feeling this will go into book 16 or Jordan may die before he can finish it. What an irony that would be for the rabid WoT fans out there. I was extremely disappointed by the fact Mat Cauthon's adventures were completely set aside. Someday he has to marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons (Seanchan). I was just as disappointed when Jordan neglected Perrin a few books ago. In fact, without Perrin Aybara and Mat Cauthon, I wouldn't give this series the time of day. I know they're not entirely central to the story, but they do make the books far more enjoyable where I find Rand rather boring these days.
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Summary: Missing a lot
Review: I have to say that although still a good book, it just doesn't live up to the previous Wheel of Time books. Path of Daggars is missing the action, exciting plot twists, and favorite characters of the other books. Important character development was either non-exsistant (in Mat's case), too little (in Perrin's case) or detrimental (in Rand's case). Rand has transformed from the underdog hero to a walking time bomb with no emotion left in him (which makes it hard to root for him, let alone read about him). Mat Cauthon (most readers favorite character), who was left in dire straits at the end of a Crown of Swords, was to great disappointment only mentioned a few times in passing in this book. Instead book 8 centered around the main female characters of the story (Egwene and company) who, in my opinion, have become bit boring and can easily become tedious to read about. In addition there is an ever growing list of secondary female characters (Aes Sedai, Wise Ones, Kin, etc.) whose names and roles are becoming almost impossible to keep straight. The Wheel of Time is still one of the best fantasy series ever written, and it seems that Robert Jordan is setting himself up for a amazing book 9. Path of Daggars is a must read for Wheel of Time fans, but it will leave you unsatisifed and waiting for book 9.
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Summary: For the FIRST time in this series -- Not worth the wait
Review: I've loved this series from the start---I've read most of the books a couple of times. Jordan's imagination and skills in storytelling are incredible. This time I think he got carried away in describing the finer points. For example, I am used to learning a lot about of who was wearing what in this series. This time around I feel as though we made more progress in this area than in plot line.
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Summary: Slow moving, high spanking content, flashes of excellence
Review: I reread the entire series before PoD came out, so I was fully primed with all the background information, subplots, etc. PoD, like it's precedessor, does not resolve much, in fact it introduces a few more new elements into the story and expands on a couple of plot items from CoS. It's hard to determine how much time actually passes from beginning to end, but it can't be more than a couple of months. At this rate I can't see an end to it before book 15 or so, if all the plot elements and characters are treated with the same attention to detail we've seen in the books so far. One thing that I noticed repeatedly in PoD and to a lesser extent in the other later books - there are dozens of references to birching, spanking, and whipping, mostly of women, young and old, and mostly performed by other women. It's like that's the primary definition of female power here - the ability to disclipine and punish other females and not be humbled by a slipper, switch, cane, belt, or hand in turn. The da'mane leash is a more exotic form of the same idea. I was laughing in disbelief as I plowed through the middle of book at the sheer number of times a major character is talking about getting whacked or her desire to teach some other recalictrant character a lesson or her fear of some other dominatrix. Those criticisms aside, there is good reason to enjoy this book. The internal dialogs of the main characters are still interesting and revealing. When the plot moves you are drawn in and follow it breathlessly for a few pages until it stops moving again. There are more scenes showing the enemies' actions, motiviations, and behaviors - they are a change of pace that refreshes you before the return to the even more Byzantine actions of the good guys.
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